Re: Migration from Netscape to squid

You have to add the MIME type to your apache srm.conf file, restart apache and put
the .pac file in root webdir if your autoproxy path is http://some.server/proxy.pac

Koen Bosmans

Balis George wrote:

> I have the following problem: In my work we recently transferred the proxy
> server from an NT 4.0 machine running Netscape Proxy Server 3.52 to a
> suse 6.1 linux with kernel 2.2.13 running squid Squid/2.0.PATCH2. The
> previous server supported autoconfiguration (.pac) files. Most of the
> Netscape Clients in our company are a personalized Netscape Edition, have
> been set up with automatic proxy configuration, and it would be a colossal
> task to set them up again. The clients set with automatic configuration
> report the following error:
>
> >The automatic configuration file is not of the correct type
> >proxy.foobar.com:8080
> >Expected MIME type of application/x-javascript-config or
> application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig
> >Use the configuration from the previous session instead?
>
> I added manually the above MIME types in squids mime.conf but it won't
> work
>
> What I ask is: where should I put the .pac file and what it should contain
> in order that the clients would continue to work as they did
> before. Additionally is there a compile option in squid that allows
> support for autoconfig files?
>
> Thanks in advance for your time
> George Balis
>
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Received on Wed Jan 26 2000 - 09:19:47 MST