[squid-users] Centralized Squid - design and implementation

[Kinkie]

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 at trimble.com> 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.
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