Ray Brighenti wrote in message
<199907280407.OAA29636@www.webfront.net.au>...
>Sorry for the slightly strange subject, but I remember a while back (not
>sure if it was this list) that IE5 looks for a CNAME of some name and if
>found uses it as it's proxy server.
>Anyone know what I'm talking about?
IE5 looks for host named "wpad" but it doesn't use
it as proxy server. It gets file http://wpad/wpad.dat and
use this file as autoconfiguration script described in
http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-5.html
Look more about WPAD in http://eggplant.rte.microsoft.com/wpad/
Igor Sysoev
Received on Wed Jul 28 1999 - 01:23:02 MDT
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