Re: [squid-users] pac and dat woes

On Fri, May 11, 2007, David Gameau wrote:
> > I've made WPAD work but I've not made it work with a DHCP
> > configuration. I've done mine with DNS.
> >
> > Does anyone here have an example of a WPAD+DHCP
> > configuration? If so I'd like to talk to you and document
> > it on the Wiki.
> >
> 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.

Hm! How interesting. Do you have any tech references for that IE6
WPAD behaviour?

Adrian
Received on Thu May 10 2007 - 19:50:41 MDT