RE: PAC files

FYI, there's a bug in IE4 that makes it fail when using a PAC with
DIRECT as an option, on FTP and gopher sites. There's a MS hotfix for
it, but you have to ask.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rstagg@csc.com [mailto:rstagg@csc.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 1998 9:01 PM
> To: Ounsted, Toby
> Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: PAC files
>
>
> If you're working with MSIE you might like to know a little
> "gotcha" that I
> found with auto-proxy config.
>
> You can give the browser a choice of proxies - a primary and
> a failover, in
> effect. Eg:
> return "PROXY proxy1:3128; PROXY proxy2:3128";
>
> Netscape reads this as "Try proxy1 first, and if that fails,
> try proxy2".
> For whatever zany reason, MSIE (version 4, certainly; I'm unsure about
> earlier versions) reads this backwards as "Try proxy2 first, and then
> proxy1". Basically it starts at the end and reads backwards :-)
>
> To preserve sanity, I recode this as:
> return "PROXY proxy1:3128; PROXY proxy2:3128; PROXY proxy1:3128";
>
> This achieves the desired failover protection with either
> major browser.
>
> Richard Stagg
>
>
>
>
>
> "Ounsted, Toby" <tkounste@bechtel.com>
> 30/10/98 09:12
>
>
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> cc: (bcc: Richard Stagg/TMU/CSC)
> Subject: PAC files
>
>
>
>
> Hi all,
> I'd like to find some examples of .pac files, specifically
> for configuring
> MSIE browsers. Does anyone know of a good place to start
> looking, or do
> you
> have a .pac file yourself that I could have a look through in
> order to get
> a
> better idea of syntax etc..
> Thanks in advance,
> Toby Ounsted
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Received on Fri Oct 30 1998 - 20:40:47 MST