Re: Migration from Netscape to squid

In the other reply to this is correct but you will also need to enable
http acceleration pointing somewhere! and write a redirector to redirect /
to the web server having the proxy.pac script available

then retriving the / doc from squid will return the proxy autoconfig file

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, 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 - 13:59:33 MST