Re: [squid-users] DHCP proxy option

Daniel Teixeira wrote:
> Sorry for the "semi" off topic, but i need to know how to send our squid
> proxy address to our windows 2000, xp and vista clients, through dhcp
> server.
> I've made plenty off attempts but none of them seemed to work!
>
> What I've tried:
>
> option wpad-url code 252 = text;
> option wpad-url "http://10.0.1.110/wpad.dat\n ";
> option custom-proxy-server code 252 = text;
> option wpad-url code 252 = text;
> option auto-proxy-config "http://10.0.1.110/wpad.dat";
> option custom-proxy-server "http://10.0.1.110/wpad.dat";
>
> the wpad.dat file is on apache, at the proxy server, and contains:
>
> function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
> {
>
> // variable strings to return
> var proxy_yes = "PROXY 10.0.1.110:8080";
> var proxy_no = "DIRECT";
> if (shExpMatch(url, "http://intranet*")) { return proxy_no; }
> if (shExpMatch(url, "http://localhost*")) { return proxy_no; }
> if (shExpMatch(url, "http://10.0.0*")) { return proxy_no; }
> return proxy_yes;
> }
>
> If I specify the proxy manually everything is fine.
> I've been looking around for this for hours now!
>
> Thank you very much
> Daniel
>
>
>

Check the web server access log where you have the pac file. If you find
a lot of requests for "wpad.da" then create a symlink for that to wpad.dat.

-- 
Andreas