[3595] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Automatic proxy configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Neruda)
Wed Nov 20 11:37:33 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:17:38 -0500
From: Steve Neruda <steve_neruda@nationwide.com>
To: Nelson Lopez <nelson@cigb.edu.cu>
CC: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Nelson Lopez wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> Netscape Navigator 3.0 have an option to get proxy configuration from
> an http server. Could anybody tell me how to setup a http server to
> pass proxy configuration to Navigator? Is there any security problem?
> Has M$ Internet Explorer an equivalent option?
>
Here is netscapes documentation for setting it up. Send me a note
if you have any problems with it:
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html
It works really well for the most part and I haven't been able to find
any security problems with it (yet :-). It uses java script to set
things and allows you to specify multiple proxies to use in case one
proxy is down.
I've head the Rumor the MS is going to add a "similar" option that I'm
sure will be incompatible.
SteveN
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Steve Neruda Steve_Neruda@Nationwide.Com
Senior Internet Consultant The Internet Technologies Group
