IE "Automatically detect settings"

[Simon Haddon]

What I have done is used a proxy config file called proxy_ie.pac for IE
and proxy_ns.pac for Mozilla/Netscape.  I then used the "Automatic proxy
Configuration" to define the URL to the file.

The proxy pac file for my company is as follows

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
  if ((isPlainHostName(host) ||
     dnsDomainIs(host, ".sibern.com.au")) &&
     !localHostOrDomainIs(host, "www.sibern.com.au"))
    return "DIRECT";
  else if (shExpMatch(host, "192.168.1.*"))
    return "DIRECT";
  else
    return "PROXY wwwcache.sibern.com.au:8080";
}



On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:04, Michael James wrote:
> When a default Windows install uses  "Automatically detect settings"
>  it relies on DHCP to provide the address of an "ISA"
>  (Internet Security and Acceleration) server.
> The ISA server gives it a config file for IE with the proxy setting.
> 
> Has this been unpicked by the open source community?
> Is the ISA functionality available from a Linux server?
> 
> Or is there simply a better way?
> 
> TIA,
> michaelj
> 
> 
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