WPAD problem with lighttpd url.redirect

redgolem

I had problems with my wpad.dat file on my pfsense. There was always an redirect so it was ignored by the browser.
So I changed in system.inc following code to make an exception for wpad subdomains.
From:


\$SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {
	\$HTTP["host"] =~ "(.*)" {
		url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "https://%1{$redirectport}/$1" )
	}
}

to


\$SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {
	\$HTTP["host"] !~ "^wpad\.(.*)$" {
		\$HTTP["host"] !~ "wpad$" {
			\$HTTP["host"] =~ "(.*)" {
				url.redirect = ( "^/(.*)" => "https://%1{$redirectport}/$1" )
			}
		}
	}
}

Is there another way to do this without changing system files?

eri--

Just put your GUI on port 80?
That redirect is just to have transparent ssl support for many people it was not meant to have special cases for WPAD.

sentkr

Hi

I tried suggestion from redgolem, it works fine for Firefox, but does not work for IE, I looked at the wireshark content , pfsense returns a http error 301
. it is still looking for wpad in https location.

I don't want to enable http access for webconfigurator for security reasons,

I am running 2.1 version of pfsense

redgolem

Which url is reqested from your Internet Explorer?
It should be http://wpad/wpad.dat or http://wpad.some.domain/wpad.dat .