RE: [squid-users] IE5/Win2k/WPAD not working

I found that the GET request from IE generally puts an IP address in the
Host header and not a fqdn - I couldn't get IE to pull a wpad.dat from an
IIS server until I created a new host header with the IP under the default
web site.

Phil DG

-----Original Message-----
From: Diego Rivera [mailto:lrivera@racsa.co.cr]
Sent: 01 August 2003 04:08
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] IE5/Win2k/WPAD not working

Hello all!!

I've followed every article and howto on the subject and still can't get it
to work!!

Basically: from the Win2k box's IE5 I can open "http://wpad/wpad.dat"
perfectly. Even "http://wpad.mydomain.com/wpad.dat", etc. These in reality
point to an apache server.

The appropriate (application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig) mime type is entered
into apache correctly (for pac and dat extensions).

Konqueror DOES work with it : set up the autodetect settings - NOT autoconf
URL - in the proxy configuration dialog and it does find the script. But IE5
won't!!! Web server logs confirm that konqueror is retrieving wpad.dat
whenever it needs it.

Manually setting the URL in IE5 does work as advertised (even using the
http://wpad/wpad.dat URL, or http://wpad.mydomain.com/wpad.dat URL).

The strange thing is after doing some packet sniffs, the win2k box isn't
even doing a DNS search for "wpad", "wpad.mydomain.com" (etc.), even after
an "ipconfig /flushdns" (to flush DNS caches). No local DNS is running on
the box.

Also, I don't see any access attempt logs from that box to the apache server
on that file or any other file. Basically, IE5 is NOT looking for the script
where I think it should be looking.

The box is a member of an NT4-style domain (Samba is PDC), so maybe that's
affecting it? No DHCP is in use.

Has anyone run into this before? Is there any way from win2k to debug what's
happening in auto configuration lookup (i.e., what it's looking for and not
finding?).

Hell - I even found an M$ TechNet article outlining the same procedure
above!!! And it still won't work!! AAARRGGHH!! We need Linus's Linux goal to
become a reality (dominate the world anyone? :) ).

Thanks for your help.

Best

Diego

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