Re: [squid-users] wpad + dhcp issues: please reproduce

On Fri, May 11, 2007, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:

> The only issue that I can recall is that Microsoft's DHCP Service
> didn't follow the DHCP specification for the definition of a string.
> It used a <null> terminated string instead of an ASCII string. To
> compensate for this IE6 decremented the length of the string. As a
> result, the last character of the URL was dropped when an ISC DHCP
> daemon was used.

I've forwarded this off to my Microsoft IE contact, I'll see what he
returns.

> If your automatic configuration script specified the file name as
> proxy.pac, the simplest way to solve the problem is to create
> symbolic links to the proxy.pac file.
>
> ln -s proxy.pac proxy.pa
> ln -s proxy.pac wpad.dat
> ln -s proxy.pac wpad.da
>
> Another issue noted by Microsoft was that the URL passed for option
> 252 was required to be lower case.
>
> If you define a wpad.domain.com CNAME in your DNS zone file, you have
> all the bases covered.

Interesting! Do you have links to any Microsoft Tech articles that cover
the requirement for option 252 URLs to be lower-case?

Adrian
Received on Sat May 12 2007 - 02:50:30 MDT