> -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > On Fri, May 11, 2007, David Gameau wrote: > > > I've made WPAD work but I've not made it work with a DHCP > > > configuration. I've done mine with DNS. > > > > > > Does anyone here have an example of a WPAD+DHCP > > > configuration? If so I'd like to talk to you and document > > > it on the Wiki. > > > > > Here's what we use to support WPAD+DHCP: > > [From dhcpd.conf, in the global section of the file] > > option option-252 code 252 = text; > > option option-252 "http://wpad.example.com/wpad.dat\n";; > > > > Note that IE6 truncates the answer it gets (by dropping the > > last character), which is why you need to include something > > like '\n'. > > > > I'm not sure whether Firefox supports DHCP for its autodiscovery. > > Hm! How interesting. Do you have any tech references for that IE6 > WPAD behaviour? > > Adrian > I can't find the singular authoritative source for the problem. However, this is probably the best explanation I could find. [from http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/web-browser-auto-proxy-c onfiguration.html] "One caveat: Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 6.01 expects the string in option 252 to be NUL-terminated. As such, it unconditionally strips off the final octet of the string before using it. Earlier versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer do not do this. To satisfy all versions, simply explicitly include a NUL as the last octet of the string." Regards, David. __ David Gameau ISTS - Systems Infrastructure University of South Australia email: David.Gameau@xxxxxxxxxxxx phone: +61 8 302 3533 fax: +61 8 302 5800 Disclaimer: "His brain sometimes stops working." - Chiyo, Azumange Daoih
