Re: squid and autoconfig

Julian Richardson wrote:
>
> >> You need to serve it off the webserver with the mime type
> >> application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig
>
> I'm using an autoconfig script here, which works fine in Netscape 3.01 -
> does anyone know which other browsers are supported though? (main ones
> here are IE 3.02, IE 4.x, IE 5.x, Netscape 4.0x and Netscape 4.5)
>
> I've heard rumours from people here of it failing on some versions of
> Netscape but working on others. Someone mentioned some kind of hack to
> get this to work with IE - what's involved there? It's be nice to
> standardise on one script held on a server if possible!!
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
> >

Well, I _do_ know that IE (some versions) read the returned list
backwards, so you need to make it a palindrome if you have more than one
entry (for example, if you have a proxy address and a direct statement)

D
Received on Tue Aug 10 1999 - 02:21:34 MDT