RE: [squid-users] wpad & windows updates

https: is 6 though, not 5.

Mark

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 21:29, Patrick Ahler wrote:
> Is this correct? I'm not sure what # goes in the url.substring(0, x) for
> https.
>
> if (url.substring(0, 5) == "http:" ||
> url.substring(0, 5) == "https:"||
> url.substring(0, 4) == "ftp:"||
> url.substring(0, 7) == "gopher:"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robertc@squid-cache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 4:20 PM
> To: Patrick Ahler
> Cc: squid-users
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] wpad & windows updates
>
>
> I think you've hit a bug in MSIE. (Gee - shock, horror).
>
> Try this using the wpad.dat file:
> Have the browser go through the proxy for *both* http and https url's.
>
> I know that there is little benefit sending HTTPS through the proxy, but
> I encountered the exact same symptoms a few months back, altering the
> wpad.dat like I'm suggesting worked...
>
> Rob
>
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 01:50, Patrick Ahler wrote:
> > I've been using autodetect proxy settings in our companies IE browsers to
> > detect wpad.domainname.net and use the wpad.dat config file there. Works
> > fine for me... except one problem. Windows updates won't work if I have
> used
> > the wpad.dat file to set the browsers proxy settings. At first I thought
> > this was a problem with the squid.conf file... but windows updates work
> fine
> > through squidip:squidport when set manually in the browser.
>
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