On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 17:47, Blake Covarrubias <blake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Dec 30, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> I'm scouring the web, not finding much, and hope some of you here have >> a clue for me. Google, with 'wpad.dat examples' and 'wpad.dat syntax' >> aren't yielding much for me - though perhaps I'm missing what's in >> front of my face. > > You probably want to look at: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config Have seen that - thank you. > http://web.archive.org/web/20060424005037/wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html Had not seen this - thank you again! >> I am looking for a solution that will allow FF in each office to query >> the web site in the US office ( because >> http://wpad.example.tld/wpad.dat will be the same for every office), >> and get back settings that are appropriate to the office. In the UK >> office that would be no proxy, just direct - in the AU office that >> would be the local proxy server, with appropriate exceptions for >> intranet sites, and the US office the same as the AU office. > > You can dynamically generate proxy.pac from a CGI script. Look at the source IP and customize appropriately. I'll look at it for ideas, but we're an IIS/ASP shop, so this probably won't help a lot. > http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/199708/0193.html > > Just setup your web server to handle .pac or .dat requests as a CGI. In lighttpd you'd use cgi.assign and Apache would use AddHandler in your <Directory> config. > > http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/1/Docs:ModCGI > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/cgi.html > > > Hope this helps. It does, actually. I'm thinking that the myIpAddress directive will be the key to what I'm trying to do. Thanks again, Kurt
