RE: have proxies hit the big time? (fwd)

Just did a trace; it does indeed use WPAD by default (although the
'automatically detect settings' button is off... odd).

I only hope that Netscape can swallow its collective pride and implement a
MS-backed standard; this is a good one.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nottingham, Mark (Australia)
> [mailto:mark_nottingham@exchange.au.ml.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 2:12 PM
> To: 'Dax Kelson'; squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: RE: have proxies hit the big time? (fwd)
>
>
> From what I saw in the betas, WPAD support was turned off by default.
> Anybody know if this the case in the release version?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dax Kelson [mailto:dkelson@inconnect.com]
> > Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 1:12 PM
> > To: squid-users@ircache.net
> > Subject: have proxies hit the big time? (fwd)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:57:28 -0800
> > From: John Giannandrea <jg@meer.net>
> > To: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: have proxies hit the big time?
> >
> >
> >
> > The newly released IE5 has a proxy autodiscovery feature which has
> > significant practical implications for global bandwidth use.
> >
> > Its hard to know how many web clients are proxied today. Its
> > probably much
> > less than 50% (including AOL users). The main reason appears
> > to be that most
> > clients are not configured for it by default.
> >
> > With IE5, if ISPs create a CNAME called wpad and provide a
> > file called wpad.dat
> > on port 80 that uses the Netscape proxy guidelines:
> >
> http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html
> > Then IE5 will automatically use those proxies for HTTP. This
> > is as transparent to
> > the end user as dynamic IP assignment or HTTP redirection.
> >
> > 12 months from now when the majority of PCs are shipping with
> > this as the
> > default browser, it would seem that proxies will be
> > significantly more relevant
> > to traffic shaping than they are today.
> >
> > jg@meer.net
> >
> >
>
Received on Sun Mar 21 1999 - 21:11:45 MST