[3597] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Automatic proxy configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian W. Spolarich)
Wed Nov 20 19:34:25 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:18:04 -0500 (EST)
From: "Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@ans.net>
To: Nelson Lopez <nelson@cigb.edu.cu>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <907A715DCE@serverdos.cigb.edu.cu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
See
<A HREF="http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html">
Proxy Client Autoconfig File Format</A>
For details on Netscape's JavaScript-based proxy autoconfiguration. Its
an interesting idea: the config file provides a JavaScript function which
is evaluated for every URL request. The return string specifies the proxy
server to use, or can be "DIRECT", which tells the client not to use a
proxy. Conditions can be evaluated based on the hostname and address of
the client and the target, as well as the protocol, and arbitrary URL
string matching.
I do not believe that IE has a comparable configuration strategy, but
they don't make a Solaris client, so I wouldn't know. :-]
-brian
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, 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?
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| P.D. I apologize if the subject is a little off topic, but I can't find
| another target to my question.
|
|
| --
| Nelson Lopez
| nelson@cigb.edu.cu
|
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Brian W. Spolarich - ANS Systems Development - briansp@ans.net - 313-677-7311
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