On Fri, May 11, 2007, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote: > The only issue that I can recall is that Microsoft's DHCP Service > didn't follow the DHCP specification for the definition of a string. > It used a <null> terminated string instead of an ASCII string. To > compensate for this IE6 decremented the length of the string. As a > result, the last character of the URL was dropped when an ISC DHCP > daemon was used. I've forwarded this off to my Microsoft IE contact, I'll see what he returns. > If your automatic configuration script specified the file name as > proxy.pac, the simplest way to solve the problem is to create > symbolic links to the proxy.pac file. > > ln -s proxy.pac proxy.pa > ln -s proxy.pac wpad.dat > ln -s proxy.pac wpad.da > > Another issue noted by Microsoft was that the URL passed for option > 252 was required to be lower case. > > If you define a wpad.domain.com CNAME in your DNS zone file, you have > all the bases covered. Interesting! Do you have links to any Microsoft Tech articles that cover the requirement for option 252 URLs to be lower-case? Adrian
