> Hey, > > I am running squid/squidGuard with NTLM authentication. Everything works > perfectly, except there is a site that some employees use for interactive > training. It seems when these employees go to this site they are continually > prompted for username/password with wpad.domainname.com as the realm. > > After investigating, the useragent log is showing this: > 192.168.12.102 - - [15/Feb/2006:15:30:49 -0500] "GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1" 200 > 251 "-" "NSPlayer/9.00.00.2980" > > It seems that the NSPlayer header is somehow not retrieving the wpad file > correctly? If the users click cancel nothing happens - they can continue, > but it pops up when they click to go to the next page. This is a major > annoyance for some users, and has become a headache for me. I haven't > explicitly set anything in squid.conf to only allow certain headers, im not > even sure if you can. I have searched hell and high-water, but to no avail. > > Does anyone have any ideas? > - WPAD is normally used for automatic proxy detection in IE. - I don't understand why the remote webserver , would offer a WPAD.dat files for 'internet users', that doesn't make sense. - The remote webserver may be broken. M.
