RE: [squid-users] Automatic Configuration

Two options...

Some browsers will support Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol, which can find
the configuration file. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol

The other option is to setup squid as a transparent proxy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Kolomeysky [mailto:JKolomeysky_at_SGU.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 12:25 PM
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Automatic Configuration
>
> I wanted to know if there was a way to implement a Squid server into
> your
> environment without having to modify any browser settings. Every
> article
> I've read says that even if you use DNS/DHCP you still have to point
> the
> browser to a configuration file but the only advantage is that if you
> move
>
>
> the file or the server changes you don't have to change the setting on
> all
>
>
> the browsers.
>
> We have over 6,000 people in our environment and I can't change all of
> their settings. I'd like for the integration to be seamless.
>
> Please let me know if this is possible and if so then how. Thanks in
> advance.
>
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Received on Mon Jan 25 2010 - 20:54:01 MST