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| Newer page: | version 45 | Last edited on Friday, October 13, 2006 1:30:36 pm | by DuaneWessels | Revert |
| Older page: | version 44 | Last edited on Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:35:33 am | by CraigBox | Revert |
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* <tt>~http://wpad.net.nz/wpad.dat</tt>
(It’s only supposed to check to the second level, but according to the [Microsoft Security Bulletin MS99-054 | http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-054.mspx] the third level was special-cased in some unspecified ways. Presumably someone could register <tt>wpad.co.nz</tt> and be really nasty if they wanted.)
- ''<tt>wpad.com</tt> does actually exist and is owned by Duane Wessles, the author of [Web Caching | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webcaching/]. There's no <tt>wpad.dat</tt> there. I mailed him a while back asking about it, and he constantly gets between 10 and 40 hits per second depending on the time of day. The 404 logs for that site are at http://www.life-gone-hazy.com/~snmp
/http_status.cgi if you're interested.'' —zcat(1)
+ ''<tt>wpad.com</tt> does actually exist and is owned by Duane Wessles, the author of [Web Caching | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webcaching/]. There's no <tt>wpad.dat</tt> there. I mailed him a while back asking about it, and he constantly gets between 10 and 40 hits per second depending on the time of day. The 404 logs for that site are at http://www.life-gone-hazy.com/%7esnmp
/http_status.cgi if you're interested.'' —zcat(1)
Note: you might need to take the tick out of the check box and put it back in order to make it go.
Warning: beware that Internet Explorer 5.5+ may cache your wpad file and not recognize future changes you make to it -- this feature is referred to as Automatic Proxy Result Cache ([MS KB 271361 | http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;271361]). If you turn off "Automatically detect settings", save the change, restart IE, turn it back on, and restart IE again, then it will force a refresh of the <tt>wpad.dat</tt> file from your WebServer. (If you're lucky. It seems IE 6 refuses to flush even then.) Here is [a Google Groups discussion of the issue | http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b6239t%24mif%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw].
