RE: [squid-users] proxy.pac config

Hi Adrian,

Maybe a VB script or active X that will configure browsers...

Regards...

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:adrian@creative.net.au]
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 4:49 PM
To: SSCR Internet Admin
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] proxy.pac config

On Sat, May 12, 2007, SSCR Internet Admin wrote:

> Last night when in bed thinking over this, ive come up an idea. When a
user
> try to browse directly (port 80), iptables should redirect those traffic
to
> a specific part on your site where it magically configures the browsers to
> use PAC. So no user intervention or manual config will occur, I guess
> firefox can be configured automatically..
>
> Just my two cents idea, who knows someone has already done this (not me, I
> only understand programming algo but not into coding).

Hm, how do you magically configure a browser to use a proxy.pac file from
one port 80 access?

Its easy to setup a port 80 redirect to a web page which shows the user how
to setup their proxy server settings.

Adrian

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