This assumes that the user is pretty containable, i.e. always uses
the ISP's or corporate web server's preset home page. However,
you get renegades such as myself who set their home page to a
personalized service like my.foobar.com and consequently this
scheme appears to break.
I support the idea that the contract between the client and the
proxy is explicit, which is what I think I was supporting lo these
many weeks ago.
-scooter
> With all the talk of WPAD and how to more easily configure proxy settings, I
> remembered something I had stumbled across for Navigator. Using signed
> JavaScript, you can set the browser preferences for a user with something as
> simple as a button click. For a simple example of how you can use this, take a
> look at:
>
> http://personal.inktomi.com/~chuckn/CAPI/SetProxy.html
>
> Fire me some email if you find this useful.
>
> Chuck Neerdaels Inktomi Corp.
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