Re: Outlook/Hotmail PROPFIND problem

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 03:32:59 +0000

Hroi Sigurdsson wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble with some clients being unable to get their Hotmail
> mail from within Outlook Express.
> I searched the archives and found out why this was (Outlook includes a
> PROPFIND Header in the request which Squid doesn't handle).
>
> I've tried to work around it with the following proxy.pac file:
>
> function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
> {
> if ( shExpMatch(url, "*msn.com*"))
> return "DIRECT";
> if ( shExpMatch(url, "*hotmail*"))
> return "DIRECT";
> if (isPlainHostName(host))
> return "DIRECT";
> else
> return "PROXY 129.142.30.101:3128; DIRECT";
> }

Not addressing your main problem..you may want to change the last line
to this:

return "PROXY 129.142.30.101:3128; DIRECT; PROXY 129.142.30.101";

Some MS-derived products are known to use the returned list in _reverse_
order, so you make it read the same way from either end.

D
Received on Mon Oct 25 1999 - 21:40:51 MDT

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