Re: [squid-users] pac and dat woes

David Gameau wrote:
> Here's what we use to support WPAD+DHCP:
> [From dhcpd.conf, in the global section of the file]
> option option-252 code 252 = text;
> option option-252 "http://wpad.example.com/wpad.dat\n";
>
> Note that IE6 truncates the answer it gets (by dropping the
> last character), which is why you need to include something
> like '\n'.
>
> I'm not sure whether Firefox supports DHCP for its autodiscovery.
The alternative for IE6 is to have a symlink with the "t" missing from
the name. That's how I did it anyway.
And AFAIK, DHCP-WPAD is really only effective for Windows running IE6/7.
I'm fairly sure support for this method in other operating systems and
browsers is pretty much non-existent.

TB

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Received on Thu May 10 2007 - 19:50:18 MDT