Re: IE 5.5 doesn't work?

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 04:11:46PM -0600, David Minor wrote:
> Hi - it looks like the new version of Internet Exploiter - 5.5 - doesn't work
> with Squid. I have been running the proxy server since January with no
> real problems, but now I am having people call to say that it doesn't
> work with the new browser.
>
> So.....tried it out by updating a machine that had 5.0 on it (and had
> always worked), and guess what? Suddenly the proxy no longer
> functions.
>
> What I see is that when the browser starts up it says "Detecting Proxy
> Settings" for a long time, and then starts up OK. However, when you
> hit a URL that is supposed to prompt you for username and password,
> it doesn't. Usually when I have seen this behavior it's because the
> browser hasn't grabbed the cache.pac file correctly, so it doesn't know
> that it's supposed to do something at the appropriate times.

I've only got "Use automatic configuration script" checked and pointing to my
proxy.pac here. Been working fine with IE 5.5. As someone else suggested,
it may have to do with the "Automatically detect settings" setting.

-Dave
Received on Thu Jul 20 2000 - 09:52:04 MDT