https://sigtar.com/tags/url/ Recent content in Url on sigtar.com Hugo en-nz Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2009/05/17/wpad-web-proxy-autodiscovery-protocol/ Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 +1200 https://sigtar.com/2009/05/17/wpad-web-proxy-autodiscovery-protocol/ <p>When using wpad there are some things that you should take note of;</p> <ul> <li>DHCP wpad will override DNS wpad</li> <li>DHCP 252 option can in some cases be slightly slower to resolve than DNS - there may be a patch for WinInet to resolve this.</li> <li>You should always use lower case - wpad.dat  (it is case sensitive)</li> <li>DHCP will allow either a URL or a file location for wpad.dat</li> </ul> <p>Within IE on the LAN settings tab if you have WPAD &ldquo;automatically detect settings&rdquo; enabled and also configure a proxy server the WPAD should override the manual proxy configuration.</p>