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

I read the draft, and you actually set an "A" record, not a CNAME for
wpad.yourdomain.com.

Dax Kelson

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Nottingham, Mark (Australia) wrote:

> 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 - 22:03:04 MST