Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 22:34:20 -0500 (EST) From: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Networking) Subject: Help please with proxying for Netscape. Message-ID: <200001080334.TAA07445@netcom.com>
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Sorry to post this here, but I sent it questiosn, where it was met with a
resounding silence. I really need to understand this.
I have several FreeBSD machines which live behind a coporate firewall.
Untill recently access to http browsing was on "need only" basis. It
was throught a SOCKS firewall that did some sort of authentication.
Now it has been opened up to "everyon", except the MIS types on
"support' microsloth machines :-(
After having looked at one of thes machines, I see that Nescape on the
is configured to use "automatic proxyin" and this proxy is pointed to a
file on a Novell fileserver. Here are the contents of this file:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
if (isInNet(host, "170.85.18.11", "255.255.255.128"))
return "SOCKS 170.85.17.10:1080; DIRECT";
else
if (isInNet(host, "170.85.0.0", "255.255.0.0"))
return "DIRECT";
else
return "SOCKS 170.85.17.10:1080; DIRECT";
}
Now, what this does is pretty obvious, if the reference is outside our
corporate net (170.85.*) it calls a SOCKS proxy, otherwise, it goes
direct.
I need to be able to replicate this behavior for the UNIX machines
behind the firewall. I have a internal FreeBSD machine that runs
Apache, that I think I can do this with, but just putting this file on
it, and pointing my UNIX clients to it results in nescape error,
referencing a MIME type error.
Can someone please educate me on how to make this work?
Thanks
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