Re: heuristic for server names

> > > However, if you tell Netscape to use a proxy server, it will let the
> > > proxy server do DNS instead
> >
> > I see. My problem with getting Squid (or actually any program) to do this
> > sort of thing is localisation. I might want "microsoft" to give me
> > "www.microsoft.com.au", and someone in Japan might want
> > "www.microsoft.com.jp". Perhaps a better solution would be a background
> > program to run on the client machine that intercepts certain web requests
> > and rewrites them, in a fashion similar to Getright or Alexa? This might
> > make localisation (i.e. non-US-centricism) easier. Or even a plug-in for
> > browsers?

Put the following in the first part of your proxy-autoconfig file:
      if (!isResolvable(host))
          return "DIRECT";

That way, netscape will see that microsoft isn't resolvable, and will
try something else like www.microsoft.com... If you prefer to
customize it for your own localization, you can do that too as
part of the autoconfig. In other words, you don't need squid to do
this, have your javascript autoconfig do it.

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Received on Fri Jun 11 1999 - 08:19:35 MDT