Re: [squid-users] OTish: wpad configuration

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 17:47, Blake Covarrubias <blake_at_ekalb.net> wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Kurt Buff wrote:
>
>> I'm scouring the web, not finding much, and hope some of you here have
>> a clue for me. Google, with 'wpad.dat examples' and 'wpad.dat syntax'
>> aren't yielding much for me - though perhaps I'm missing what's in
>> front of my face.
>
> You probably want to look at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config

Have seen that - thank you.

> http://web.archive.org/web/20060424005037/wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html

Had not seen this - thank you again!

>> I am looking for a solution that will allow FF in each office to query
>> the web site in the US office ( because
>> http://wpad.example.tld/wpad.dat will be the same for every office),
>> and get back settings that are appropriate to the office. In the UK
>> office that would be no proxy, just direct - in the AU office that
>> would be the local proxy server, with appropriate exceptions for
>> intranet sites, and the US office the same as the AU office.
>
> You can dynamically generate proxy.pac from a CGI script. Look at the source IP and customize appropriately.

I'll look at it for ideas, but we're an IIS/ASP shop, so this probably
won't help a lot.

> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/199708/0193.html
>
> Just setup your web server to handle .pac or .dat requests as a CGI. In lighttpd you'd use cgi.assign and Apache would use AddHandler in your <Directory> config.
>
> http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/1/Docs:ModCGI
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/cgi.html
>
>
> Hope this helps.

It does, actually. I'm thinking that the myIpAddress directive will be
the key to what I'm trying to do.

Thanks again,

Kurt
Received on Thu Dec 31 2009 - 02:24:50 MST