Re: [squid-users] Problem with using wpad for autoconfiguration.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
To: "Squid-Users" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Problem with using wpad for autoconfiguration.

> Well, if you think about it, it really isn't a bug. Basically the way the
> autoconfigure works is it (IE) looks for the wpad server, pulls down the
> config file and parses it. How would java know how to parse the file
unless
> it was programemd in?

Uhmm, I thought that the file IE gets from wpad was a .pac configuration
file. Java is not the issue - the JVM is what manages connections from the
PC, and that is able to use the system proxy configuration.

> Whereas if you type in the actual proxy information, that is set for the
OS
> and applications can use it appropriately (it is probably transparent
> through the window sockets or something... the OS probably habndles the
> proxy routing).

> wpad is only good for IE or programs that know to look for it and parse
it,
> so it seems.

In that case, proxy's shouldn't work for anything that doesn't know where in
the registry to look, and JAVA shouldn't work with manual configuration
either..

I would definately class this as a bug.

Rob

> Adam Lang
> Systems Engineer
> Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
> To: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>; "Squid-Users"
> <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 6:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Problem with using wpad for autoconfiguration.
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
> > To: "Squid-Users" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:50 AM
> > Subject: [squid-users] Problem with using wpad for autoconfiguration.
> >
> >
> > > I just encountered a pretty annoying reason why NOT to use wpad and
> > IE's
> > > autro configuration. If you use java applets.
> > >
> > <snip>
> > > Apparently if you configure proxying with wpad, applets will not pick
> > up the
> > > proxy rules, whereas if you manually set them on PCs, the java applets
> > will
> > > use the OSes proxy rules.
> >
> > Have you considered reporting this as a bug to M$?
> >
> > Rob
> >
>
>
Received on Wed Jun 20 2001 - 15:59:46 MDT