Squid managing wpad

JonathanLee

Hello fellow Netgate community members,

I did some emails and found that Squid can manage a wpad.

Amazing!! Has anyone attempted this??

As quoted from squid users email support..

“acl wpad urlpath_regex ^/wpad.dat$
deny_info 200:/etc/squid/wpad.dat wpad
http_access deny wpad

reply_header_access Content-Type deny wpad
reply_header_replace Content-Type application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig

HTH
Amos”

aGeekhere

@JonathanLee

There is an Unofficial-pfSense WPAD package

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/116163/unofficial-wpad-package-for-pfsense-software

https://github.com/freitasbr/unofficial-pfsense-wpad

Works really well if you want to run a proxy and do not want to fully rely on the transparent proxy (which can have connection issues on some programs like sites not working in chrome).

You can also set it up manually however the package makes it easy.