IP Route/IP Tables

depam · 10-10-2005, 11:44 PM

Is there a way to point clients to a squid server automatically when they have obtained their IP addresses? I was able to setup squid and reconfigured the browser by adding the host and port and it went well on browsing. However, i want it to automatically see the squid as the proxy so i won't have to type in the host and port on the browser. Can anyone please help me on this? Thanks.

unSpawn · 10-12-2005, 12:48 PM

You could prolly muck around with redirecting ports but sane browsers support either the automatic proxy URI where you serve a proxy.pac or can use a local proxy.pac file. Here's an example:

Code:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
        // Direct connections to non-FQDN hosts
        if (isPlainHostName(host)) 
            return "DIRECT";

        // Direct connections to local domain
        else if (dnsDomainIs(host, ".localnet")) 
            return "DIRECT";

        else if (shExpMatch(url, "https://*"))
            return "DIRECT";

        else if (shExpMatch(host, "www.[a-h]*") || shExpMatch(host, "[a-h]*"))
            return "PROXY localnet:8080; " +
                   "PROXY localnet:8080; " +
                   "DIRECT";
        else if (shExpMatch(host, "www.[i-z]*") || shExpMatch(host, "[i-z]*"))
            return "PROXY localnet:8081; " +
                   "PROXY localnet:8081; " +
                   "DIRECT";
        else
            return "PROXY localnet:8082; " +
                   "PROXY localnet:8082; " +
                   "DIRECT";

}

pddm · 10-12-2005, 02:10 PM

If you configure it to be transparent, there is no need to configure the browsers.