Re: Pointcast

Mmmm, this is a great way to disallow PointCast, much easier than filtering
URL's with Squid!

:-)

You might try it again with a manually configured browser.

Rodney van den Oever / roever@nse.simac.nl / +31 318 623047
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian <signal@shreve.net>
To: Squid Users Mailing List <squid-users@nlanr.net>
Date: maandag 9 maart 1998 22:44
Subject: Pointcast

>It would seem that when users run Pointcast and select "use Microsoft
>Internet Explorer as browser", and MSIE is configured to use an
>auto-config file which points them to our squid, that pointcast wont work.
>
>Point cast will work if you go into MSIE and tell it "dont use proxy".
>But otherwise, it appears to break, because its trying to grab files at
>127.0.0.1/blah/blah and failing, anyone know how to fix this?
>
>Brian
>
>
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Received on Mon Mar 09 1998 - 21:46:35 MST