Thanks, Craig, guess that's my fallback. I've got some non-desktop clients on the network so I'll have to see if some of the mobile and game platform browsers support proxy auto-configuration.
I tried to set this up with the 2-system design discussed in the document from pkg-readmes/ and in the end was defeated. A little more complexity than I really wanted. On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Craig Skinner <skin...@britvault.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Darren, > > On 2015-07-14 Tue 17:47 PM |, Darren Spruell wrote: >> Shamefully realized I missed the documentation from >> /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/ that covers this. >> > > I use Squid in basic non-transparent mode & http publish a proxy.pac > file (& symlinked wpad.dat), which browers load once at start up. > > Easy enough to do with base daemons, & saves all that redirect traffic. > > http://wiki.wlug.org.nz/WPAD > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ConfiguringBrowsers#Fully_Automatic_Configuration > "All major browsers out now implementing WPAD. I think WPAD is an > excellent feature that will return several hours of life per month." > http://findproxyforurl.com/example-pac-file/ > Option 5 of http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/setproxy.html > http://nscsysop.hypermart.net/proxypac.html > http://www.deckle.co.uk/squid-users-guide/browser-configuration.html > > > Unix hosts also have this in /etc/profile: > [[ -n ${http_proxy} ]] || . /etc/proxy.env > > # ---------- /etc/proxy.env ----------- > http_proxy='http://proxy.internal:3128' # <---- must be a port number, not > /etc/services name > https_proxy=${http_proxy} > ftp_proxy=${http_proxy} > gopher_proxy=${http_proxy} > wais_proxy=${http_proxy} > export http_proxy https_proxy ftp_proxy gopher_proxy wais_proxy > # ---------- /etc/proxy.env ----------- > > This works for ftp(1), curl, dillo, xombrero, claws-mail, etc.... > > The DHCP method doesn't work, even with Windows boxes running IE, > as the Squid wiki page says. > > > There's also this index.html in the same directory as the proxy.pac file: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> > <html> > <head> > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> > <title> > Browser Setup - WPAD setup help > </title> > </head> > <body> > <h1>Direct Access Forbidden!</h1> > <h2>WWW access is via a proxy.</h2> > <p> > For your safety and secuity, configure your browser to auto-detect proxy > settings for this network. > </p> > <hr> > <p> > | For help, contact <a href="mailto:webmaster";>webmaster</a> | > </p> > </body> > </html> > -- Darren Spruell phatbuck...@gmail.com
