Features/Proxy Settings: Difference between revisions

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* Automatic mode - ~~PAC~~

===Automatic mode - WPAD===

~~[[File:testproxysupport~~-~~pac~~.~~png|400px]]~~

* Motive

** To provide proxy-configuration, without needing the client-user to enter the location of proxy-configuration file herself.

~~[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Automatic_Proxy_Settings#PAC_-_Proxy_Auto_Config PAC - Proxy Auto Config]~~

* Benefits

** By not needing the client-user to manually specify the proxy-configuration file, every client-user is saved a headache :) Instead, all the configuration is done via a network-administrator, on the server-side.

** By delegating the responsibility of speiciying every proxy-rule (even the proxy-configuration file) to the network-administrator, security is increaded dramatically.

* Notes

** Setting this particular mode( (Automatic Proxy) is quite complicated; and many possibilities exist. '''However, the bottom-rule is, client should himself not need to specifiy the location of proxy-configuration file as per say'''.

* Testing (one of the possible ways :) )

** To verify that current dextrose-4 supports Auto-WPAD mode, we test using the method, as per the following 4 requirements, as listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol#Requirements ::

***In order to use the DNS only method, a DNS entry is needed for a host named WPAD.

***The host at the WPAD address must be able to serve a Web page.

***In both cases, the Web server must be configured to serve the WPAD file with a MIME type of "application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig".

***If the DNS method is used, a file named wpad.dat must be located in the WPAD Web site's root directory.

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-* Automatic mode - PAC
+===Automatic mode - WPAD===
-[[File:testproxysupport-pac.png|400px]]
+* Motive
+** To provide proxy-configuration, without needing the client-user to enter the location of proxy-configuration file herself.
-[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Automatic_Proxy_Settings#PAC_-_Proxy_Auto_Config PAC - Proxy Auto Config]
+* Benefits
+** By not needing the client-user to manually specify the proxy-configuration file, every client-user is saved  a headache :) Instead, all the configuration is done via a network-administrator, on the server-side.
+** By delegating the responsibility of speiciying every proxy-rule (even the proxy-configuration file) to the network-administrator, security is increaded dramatically.
+* Notes
+** Setting this particular mode( (Automatic Proxy) is quite complicated; and many possibilities exist. '''However, the bottom-rule is, client should himself not need to specifiy the location of proxy-configuration file as per say'''.
+* Testing (one of the possible ways :) )
+** To verify that current dextrose-4 supports Auto-WPAD mode, we test using the method, as per the following 4 requirements, as listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol#Requirements ::
+***In order to use the DNS only method, a DNS entry is needed for a host named WPAD.
+***The host at the WPAD address must be able to serve a Web page.
+***In both cases, the Web server must be configured to serve the WPAD file with a MIME type of "application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig".
+***If the DNS method is used, a file named wpad.dat must be located in the WPAD Web site's root directory.
 =Automatic mode - WPAD=