Thanks very much guys... as I mentioned, I am new to this and will therefore try it out with a colleague who knows squid well. Will get back if anything. Thanks once again. -----Original Message----- From: ian j hart [mailto:ianjhart@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:04 PM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Amos Jeffries Subject: Re: BYPASS UPON FAILURE On Sunday 23 March 2008 11:12:22 Amos Jeffries wrote: > Tim Bates wrote: > > K K wrote: > >> For > >> Windows/MSIE the setting can be done automatically by WPAD, DHCP, or > >> GPO. For non-microsoft, this needs to be configured manually on each > >> client. > > > > For non-MS browsers you can often still use WPAD (Firefox on Linux for > > example can do that still). > > You can also get a modified version of Firefox (made by FrontMotion) > > that supports GPO for certain settings. > > > > TB > > The only real trouble with WPAD is that it has never been formally > standardised. > Microsoft products use only the 'obsolete' DHCP methods of WPAD. Are you sure about this? IIRC I'm using only DNS. Which is clunky, but it works. (XP) > Linux/Mac/*BSD products use the easier but non-official DNS methods of > WPAD. > > So you need to configure both methods for it to work properly on the > network for all clients. > > Amos -- ian j hart
