Re: Large Scale Transparency - Disadvantages?

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:34:22 +0100

Miguel A.L. Paraz wrote:
>
> Thanks that's very helpful - might as well avoid large-scale transparency.
>
> There's a proposal for a cache "autodiscovery" protocol, right?

Right. WPAD.

IIRC only supported by IE5, and will have to undergo some changes before
becoming part of a standard. It is a protocol for finding the proper
location of a PAC script by searching DHCP and DNS databases.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Received on Mon Dec 27 1999 - 03:17:12 MST

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