Differences between version 32 and predecessor to the previous major change of WPAD.
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| Newer page: | version 32 | Last edited on Friday, June 18, 2004 3:57:03 am | by MalteStretz | Revert |
| Older page: | version 31 | Last edited on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:35:07 pm | by ChrisWilliams | Revert |
@@ -49,9 +49,8 @@
* !http://wpad.something.meta.net.nz/wpad.dat
* !http://wpad.meta.net.nz/wpad.dat
* !http://wpad.net.nz/wpad.dat
-* !http://wpad.nz/wpad.dat
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 Knowledge Base 271361|KB: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 wpad.dat file from your webserver (If you're lucky. It seems IE 6 refuses to flush even then). Here is a [Google Groups'|http://groups.google.com/groups?q=squid+wpad.dat+doesn%27t+work&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=b6239t%24mif%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=3] discussion of the issue.
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-[1] I would assume that someone could register wpad.co.nz and be really nasty if they wanted.
+[1] Though it checks only to the second level,
I would assume that someone could register wpad.co.nz and be really nasty if they wanted. According to the [Microsoft Security Bulletin MS99-054|http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-054.mspx] was the third level special-cased in some unspecified ways
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wpad.com does actually exist and is owned by Duane Wessles, the author of [Web Caching|http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webcaching/]. There's no wpad.dat 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.
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