What does your wpad (Auto Proxy file) look like?

[eean]

I've just re-set up my auto proxy file on a new server after I migrated from a win 2k server to win 2003. I noticed it was really slow when it was using the auto proxy file. I'm not sure if it was this slow before. This is my old wpad.dat and proxy.pac file:

function FindProxyForURL(url,host)
{ if(isPlainHostName(host)||
   isInNet(host,"10.39.0.0","255.255.254.0")) return "DIRECT";
 else return "PROXY 10.39.208.69:8080; DIRECT";
}

This should work out if the destination has a local IP address and, if not, send it to the proxy.

 

After some fiddling, I took out the bit that works out if it is local and now it runs fine:

function FindProxyForURL(url,host) { return "PROXY proxy:8080; DIRECT"; }

But now, of course, if I try to access a local resource it can't find it.

Is there a more efficient way of writing my original file?

(I need to use automatically detect settings, so other GP or reg based methods are no good).

[Oops_my_bad]

Here's our proxy.pac. Probably not the most efficient but seems to work OK

 

function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
   if (dnsDomainIs(host, "webmail.school.sch.uk") ||
isInNet(host, "10.15.228.0", "255.255.252.0"))
return "DIRECT";
   else
       return "PROXY 10.15.x.x:80; DIRECT";
}

 

This basically assumes anything 10.15.228.0 to 10.15.231.255 is local and everything else go via the proxy. I just want to pimp it a bit now so it uses a different proxy when connecting from certain IP's ;-)

Edited February 23, 2008 by TeddyKGB

[eean]

Hmm... looks pretty similar to mine. Although, I've just noticed that my network address is wrong, so that won't help!

When I use the original script, it is noticeably slower - like it could take several seconds after clicking on the link to go to the page, and then, each graphic etc.. takes a few seconds longer. When the proxy is hard coded it is instant.

 

Really, I want it to say "If address is one word, like server, or suiteprinter then go direct, else go to proxy" - that should be less effort for it to work out?

 

In answer to your question, I think this function may help: myIpAddress()

- If you google it along with proxy auto config you get lots of threads of people struggling to get it to work!

Edited February 23, 2008 by eean