[squid-users] Centralized Squid - design and implementation

Amos Jeffries squid3 at treenet.co.nz
Wed Nov 19 13:37:58 UTC 2014


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On 20/11/2014 2:11 a.m., brendan kearney wrote:
> Yes and it seems java is even more sensitive.  I had an array
> member defined on a line that was not terminated with a semicolon
> and browsers did not throw errors, but java did.  Pactester did not
> catch this.  Missing curly braces and I think quotes are caught.
> 
> Also of note, you have to set the content type header for a pac
> file or else you run into weird issues.  I found that browsers are
> forgiving and will execute the script and take its output if the
> header is not set. Flash does not do this.  It might call for the
> script but does not use it if the Content-Type header is not set
> to "application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig".
> 
> 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.

Ouch. Thank you for that. I've had questions but not had access to
systems to find out.

This is stuff that should be published on http://findproxyforurl.com/.
If you can find the author of that site (Peter Hayes?) please let them
know these.

Amos

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