Internet: Automaticly distribute proxy settings for IE and Firefox
With the following procedure which make’s use of dns settings and a apache webserver it is possible to automaticly distribute the squid (or any other proxy server) proxy configuration :
1. Use your favorite additor to create a proxy.pac file and wpad.dat file
- the typical proxy.pac file will look like this :
| function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { |
| if (isInNet(host, “192.168.1.0”, “255.255.255.0”)) |
| { |
| return “DIRECT”; |
| } |
| else if (isInNet(host, “172.16.1.0”, “255.255.255.0”)) |
| { |
| return “DIRECT”; |
| } |
| else if (isInNet(host,”127.0.0.1”,”255.255.255.255”)) |
| else |
| { |
| return “PROXY proxy.isp:8080;SOCKS proxy.isp:30000”; |
| } |
| } |
2. Create symlink for proxy.pac #ln -s proxy.pac wpad.dat
3. Add the mimetype for pac and dat files in Apache application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig pac dat
4. Make sure the wpad entry is added to your domain pointing to the webserver
You can find additional information on the following websites :
http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/proxypac.html http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/squid.php http://proxy.nsysu.edu.tw/FAQ/FAQ-5.html
Posted by Administrator on Wednesday, November 22, 2006
