The Web Proxy Auto Discovery app is not working well for me at all. I am running ClearOS release 7.2.0 (Final).
When I edit the settings, I get a spinning "loading" icon in my browser tab - sometimes it spins forever, other times it comes back with an error that a file is missing. If I change the WPAD service to disabled, it always seems to stay enabled. Sometimes settings won't stick unless I uninstall and reinstall the app. It creates a DNS entry for my external interface which I don't think is correct - I am not configuring it to use my external interface.
When I edit the settings, I get a spinning "loading" icon in my browser tab - sometimes it spins forever, other times it comes back with an error that a file is missing. If I change the WPAD service to disabled, it always seems to stay enabled. Sometimes settings won't stick unless I uninstall and reinstall the app. It creates a DNS entry for my external interface which I don't think is correct - I am not configuring it to use my external interface.
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Thank you for your response, Ben!
I spent a lot of time switching things on and off and changing settings, in different order until the settings would finally stick. Getting the config file to use port 8080 was a puzzle by itself - choosing "Auto detect" or choosing "8080" would not work. I had to choose "Custom" and then type in "8080".
Client machines running XP and newer appeared to be using the WPAD information correctly as far as I could tell, although applications like Trillian and Firefox needed their own configuration changes. Internet Explorer's "automatically detect settings" checkbox did not have any effect on those applications, which is expected from what I've been reading.
At the moment, I have the app uninstalled, since I am a little afraid of it. It was hard to get it set just right and I was worried a setting might change once I've had all of our computers set up with WPAD. -
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