On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 19:06 +0530, Nishant Sharma wrote: > > On 19 November 2014 6:41:44 pm IST, brendan kearney <bpk678@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >it > >if the Content-Type header is not set to > >"application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig". > > > > Ah so that is why most of the java applets don't honour PAC settings and I was blaming poor coding of those applets. > > I usually serve PAC file with uhttpd or lighttpd servers running on the gateways and never bothered to set correct content-type headers. > > Would be great if you could include that in your document too. > > Regards, > Nishant > > >GoToMeeting has also pissed me off. The client parses the script and > >takes > >any value found in it, before executing the script and taking the > >output of > >the execution. This has the result of finding inappropriate proxies to > >use, > >when you are in a corporate environment and have proxies dedicated to > >client access or other functions that should not be leveraged in all > >cases. I got their technical team on a call because we have a large > >citrix > >install base (both products have the same parent company) and > >complained to > >no avail. I had to write a doc on how to correct the client config for > >anyone needing to use GoTo... products. > >On Nov 19, 2014 6:18 AM, "Kinkie" <gkinkie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> One word of caution: pactester uses the Firefox JavaScript engine, > >which > >> is more forgiving than MSIE's. So while it is a very useful tool, it > >may > >> let some errors slip through. > >> On Nov 18, 2014 9:45 PM, "Jason Haar" <Jason_Haar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> On 19/11/14 01:39, Brendan Kearney wrote: > >>> > i would suggest that if you use a pac/wpad solution, you look into > >>> > pactester, which is a google summer of code project that executes > >pac > >>> > files and provides output indicating what actions would be > >returned to > >>> > the browser, given a URL. > >>> couldn't agree more. We have it built into our QA to run before we > >ever > >>> roll out any change to our WPAD php script (a bug in there means > >>> everyone loses Internet access - so we have to be careful). > >>> > >>> Auto-generating a PAC script per client allows us to change > >behaviour > >>> based on User-Agent, client IP, proxy and destination - and allows > >us to > >>> control what web services should be DIRECT and what should be > >proxied. > >>> There is no other way of achieving those outcomes. > >>> > >>> Oh yes, and now that both Chrome and Firefox support proxies over > >HTTPS, > >>> I'm starting to ponder putting up some form of proxy on the Internet > >for > >>> our staff to use (authenticated of course!) - WPAD makes that > >something > >>> we could implement with no client changes - pretty cool :-) > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Cheers > >>> > >>> Jason Haar > >>> Corporate Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. > >>> Phone: +1 408 481 8171 > >>> PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> squid-users mailing list > >>> squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>> http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> squid-users mailing list > >> squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users > >> > >> > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >squid-users mailing list > >squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users > i didn't mean to get your hopes up about the document i wrote. i wrote it for my employer and its details are specific to our environment. i am sure i could create something if people would want it, but i am not sure which topic to provide documentation for. is it the web server / pac file stuff or the GoToMeeting stuff? _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
