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Being flooded by wpad.dat

So, my apache server was slow, and I looked in the log files. Turned out they had grown to 12GB of accesses from tons and tons of different hosts trying to access /wpad.dat on one of my Vhosts. Now, the virtual host in question is the "catch-all"…
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Internet Explorer isn't auto-discovering http://wpad/wpad.dat auto-config

I am being driven to frustration by this problem. I have set up a file called wpad.dat (essentially, a proxy.pac file renamed) and put it on an internal web site. I've set up DNS entries so host name wpad is a CNAME for the web server. I set the…
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Is there a cross-browser way to check for IPv6-only hosts from within wpad.dat?

I'm starting to roll out IPv6 across our network and I would like a way to tell from within wpad.dat if a given host/url is IPv6-only (like ipv6.google.com). The reason that I ask is because our proxy server (Astaro Security Gateway v7) is…
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How do you configure Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol (WPAD) when you have no proxy?

Windows (going back to at least IE6) by default has WPAD turned on (Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings > Automatically Detect Settings). When you don't have a proxy or WPAD server, browsers initially take several seconds saying something…
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enterprise alternatives to WPAD proxy configuration?

We have 40+ sites in 20+ countries. We use egress filtering and force most users through proxy servers via WPAD. WPAD is great and works 99.9% for us. However, we have had a few cases where WPAD support issues has caused browsers (only MSIE - on…
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Automatic Proxy Configuration Script - Lab Setup Process

I have a requirement to set a test machine which utilises automatic proxy configuration using a WPAD.DAT file. This is to replicate a customer environment (that we can't use for testing) so we may develop a fix for one of our software packages. I…
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"Automatically Detect Setting" vs "Use Automatic Config Script"

I would like to know, in Internet Explorer, the difference between "Automatically Detect Setting" and "Use Automatic Config Script". I think I know that "Automatically Detect Setting" makes the browser locate and look for http://wpad/wpad.dat which…
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Apache access.log filled with GET requests for wpad.dat

I'm running a small web-server on a Raspberry Pi Model B+ system running Rasbian from the NOOBS install image. I have apache2 running and a DDNS service providing a URL (from duckdns.org). I'm relatively new at this, but I know my way around linux…
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proxy script does not work when two networking cards are connected. How to fix this?

I have deployed a wpad.dat. Works like a charm except for some users that are connected to two networks at the same time (ethernet and another networkadapter that emulates an analog modem for fax). I also tested this with my notebook. When I connect…
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Future for Web Proxy Auto-Discovery IETF Draft Specification?

What future can we expect for the Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Internet-Draft specification by the IETF? I see a page on the MS MSDN website that describes MS current WinHTTP AutoProxy Support that provides a link to a document that expired in 2001 and…
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Using iptables to block IP's that have requested a specific HTTP resource

I am currently being flooded by requests to /wpad.dat - in a manner that makes it seem to be an attack. Now, what I would like to do is to trigger iptables for every IP that requests /wpad.dat and then add it to a blacklist. Is there a way to do…
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How to override the network DHCP Server settings to be specific to my own .conf file?

Basically, I have want to test out WPAD(Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol ) , PAC. But I would like to do it without touching the Network DHCP server. So, can you suggest a way in which I can achieve that. Will changing the local /etc/dhclient.conf…
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Getting trouble explicit proxy

I'm using google geocoder in my PHP application. It's working fine, but the issue is: Recently network changes were done in office. Now we are using explicit proxy (wpad.dat) in place of transparent proxy and in the Firewall the allow any to any…
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GET /wpad.dat entries flooding my access_log

I have a small LAN of some 30 users in it with proxy auto configuration enabled and working. Two of them are requesting wpad.dat file too rapidly at a pace of 30 times per second. 10.1.14.246 - - [02/Jun/2014:09:07:18 +0200] "GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1"…
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Testing WPAD file locally with Internet Explorer 11

I am in the process of making our WPAD script ipv6 ready. I downloaded our current (working) WPAD script and configured the following options in Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN settings Automatically detect settings unticked Use automatic…
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