Re: automatic browser script from squid rather than httpd?

Jeff Dean wrote:
>
> The Squid FAQ makes mention in a few places of setting client
> browsers to get proxy.pac from a web server. Is there a way to
> have squid answer the request itself so I don't need to have
> apache running? My preference would simply be to have the
> autoconfig setting in the client be
> "http://www-proxy.mydomain.com:8080" and leave it at that (this
> is the Netscape Proxy method).
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> Jeff Dean
> SCT Corporation

Yes and no. You can get squid to serve it from
'http://www-proxy.mydomain.com:8080/squid-internal-static/icons/some-name-of-your-choosing',
I believe. Right at this moment, my caffeine levels aren't high enough
to consider the mime-type it would be served out under. The wrong one,
probably.

D
Received on Thu Aug 26 1999 - 15:22:07 MDT