Proxy by dhcpd that don't work ?

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Tue Feb 5 12:03:32 UTC 2008


Alex Sharaz wrote:

>I'm having problems with this as well. Up till Friday I had
>
>option wpad-curl "http://wpad.hull.ac.uk/wpad.dat\n";
>
>Which seemed  to work for 99.9% of IE clients and never worked for
>firefox/Mozilla clients.
>
>On Friday I changed the string termination to be \000 to see if we'd
>sort out the last .1% of users. Seems to have been a mistake cos our
>helpdesk had quite a few calls from users saying that their internet
>access had stopped.
>
>Going back to the \n version seems to have fixed things.

How about simply putting another file (or link) on the server at 
"http://wpad.hull.ac.uk/wpad.da" and setting the proxy option to 
"http://wpad.hull.ac.uk/wpad.dat" ?

That way, if a client works properly it gets wpad.dat, if it's broken 
it gets wpad.da

Or have I missed something ?


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