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 .