Re: [squid-users] Problematic Clients

Sorry for the late reply. The clients are WindowsNT and Windows2k
machines and I've figured out the problem.

My first recommendation to you, is to copy wpad.dat to wpad.da and
proxy.pac and proxy.pa
There's a bug in IE that truncates the last character of the proxy script.
 

To fix this particular issue, I adjusted my autoconfigure script. Before,
it was doing 6 tests, to ensure the requesting client was local to the
network. After figuring out that the 6 tests were redundant (if the
clients can get to the proxy config script, we know the client is local to
the network) I stripped down the script to only do one test. That test is
basically if the requesting site is an internet site, proxy it, if not,
send it directly.

This was to avoid having local http requests proxied. Here is my
autoconfigure script:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
        {
          if (isPlainHostName(host) || dnsDomainIs(host,
"kal.kalsec.com"))
              return "DIRECT";
          else
              return "PROXY 172.24.0.7:8000";
        }

kal.kalsec.com is our local domain.

Let me know if this helps, hopefully I'll be more responsive next time.
:-)

Regards,

Tim Rainier

Peter Persson <peter.persson@hogia.se>
03/04/2004 02:30 AM
 
        To: "'hugle@vkt.lt'" <hugle@vkt.lt>, trainier@kalsec.com,
squid-users@squid-cache.org
        cc:
        Subject: SV: [squid-users] Problematic Clients

Dear sirs,

I have the same problem , i have two (of 300 hosts)winXP-pro clients that
have the same behaviour. And im not really sure where to look first.
The logs on the webserver (wpad.local.domain/wpad.dat) is accessed by this
two clients but they don't seem to get the proxy information.

/Peter

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�mne: Re: [squid-users] Problematic Clients

> I have an issue with two client machines at the company I work for. All
> clients are configured to "Automatically Detect Settings" in IE 6 sp1.
> Of the two clients, one of them flat out cannot access the internet
> through the proxy unless I explicitly specify the proxy information and
> have nothing else checked. The other client, works with Automatically
> Detect Settings, but he has to launch a shortcut from his favorites, or
a
> shortcut from his local machine, or type in an address in the Start ->
run
> dialog, or from the address toolbar on his start menu.
>
> Anyone heard of such a thing(s) or has any insight as to what might be
> causing this. I would certainly appreciate any direction.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim Rainier
>

Hello.
Are those clients on Windows98 ?
try Winsock2 FIXes ;)

GOod luck.
Received on Fri Mar 12 2004 - 11:35:27 MST