Re: [squid-users] IE weirdness with PPP

Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Alan Lehman wrote:
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>>I recently added a PPP dialin server on my network on which I have a
>>Squid proxy box. The dialin clients can browse the internet with Mozilla
>>via Squid. They can also ping and telnet to the Squid box. IE6 however
>>gets no response from Squid. Unfortunately our company policy requires
>>we use IE on the clients.
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>>The same client systems works fine with IE via the same Squid box when
>>directly connected to the local network and using the same proxy
>>configuration.
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>Sometime ago I ran accross an article in Microsoft's Knowledgebase that
>indicated that Internet Explorer ignores proxy settings that had been
>established while the system was connected when the system is connected via
>a dial-up connection. For systems connected via a dial-up to use automatic
>detection, the DNS method of detection needed to be used, i.e. you need to
>have WPAD defined in your domain's zone file that is a CNAME for a web
>server that has a "proxy.dat" file in its document root directory.
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>There was also a caveat for Windows 2000 that the file name be all lower
>case.
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>Merton Campbell Crockett
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Thanks. You are correct. I was using XP, which has separate proxy
settings for each dialup connection. I'm using manual proxy config so I
have to manually enter the proxy server settings for each dialup entry.
That fixed it.
Received on Sun Sep 21 2003 - 10:27:20 MDT