[squid-users] squid as wpad server?

[L.P.H. van Belle]

Read :
https://findproxyforurl.com/official-toolset/ 
That one helped me a lot, all you want to know is there imo. 

Greetz, 

Louis

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: squid-users 
> [mailto:squid-users-bounces at lists.squid-cache.org] Namens L A Walsh
> Verzonden: dinsdag 31 juli 2018 8:02
> Aan: squid-users at squid-cache.org
> Onderwerp: [squid-users] squid as wpad server?
> 
> I seem to remember reading that one way to improve 
> reliability is to have
> your proxy software be able to double as a web-server for WPAD.dat.
> 
> Is there a published means for doing this w/squid or would 
> something need
> to be cobbled together?
> 
> I'm currently running a small internal-only webs-server 
> (lighttpd) which
> is still slowly suffering from creeping featurism and takes 
> re-en-lightening
> myself with new SW updates and just thinking some way to do the same
> in squid might make for 1 less piece of SW to think about 
> configuring and
> keeping alive (not that it needs to do much).
> 
> Of course, in addition to updates, there's always the temptation to do
> more with it, internally, and probably mangling my wpad server in the
> process (at least until I caught it).
> 
> Anyway, given the advice in the wiki regarding WPAD and the 
> reliability of
> having it in your proxy, it seemed like it might be something 
> that's come
> up before...(?)  Would seem to be just a matter of listening for
> requests on port 80 (wpad+proxy at same IP) and serving up the
> wpad.dat static file. 
> 
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