Joe-Ma Help with Unix, Apple, Web, Mikrotik and Cisco

In this How-To, we are going to cover the ability to automatically configure your browser to use a proxy. This should work fine with Mozilla FireFox, Internet Explorer and most other browsers, for Apple's Safari things are a little Different but I will cover that as best I can. There are a few ways of doing thins but the actual proxy.pac or wpad.dat files are the most important. So we will start there. Proxy Configuration Files PROXY.PAC and WPAD.DAT They are actually the same file so you can just Alias or symlink the two files. So that if you edit the one the other “file” will also be updated. (I don’t think you can do this in windows but I might be wrong its been a long time. In the Below Example we are going to tell the browser that if the domain we are going to matches a rule then go directly to the site, this is very useful for Internal sites like intranets that you don’t really need to cache. Then we will also tell the browser to go Direct for port 443 or https sites I doubt ...