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@mojodna mojodna commented May 30, 2016

This adds support for WPAD and makes a Proxy Auto-Config available at http://wpad.lan/wpad.dat (also http://posm.io/wpad.dat).

The underlying HTTP proxy is polipo, a lightweight caching proxy server.

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mojodna commented May 30, 2016

(This is something I started working on in Ecuador when I realized the it would be beneficial to cache common external HTTP requests since the network we were on was quite slow.)

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mojodna commented Nov 22, 2016

Polipo is no longer supported; this should be changed to use tinyproxy instead.

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mojodna commented Nov 22, 2016

Even better: configure this as a transparent proxy so that all connected devices will use it.

dansguardian + ClamAV could facilitate transparent anti-virus scanning as well.

This configures polipo as an HTTP proxy using WPAD
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol).

I've manually verified that the configuration is correct (and that
proxying occurs), however OS X and iOS do not appear to respect these
settings.
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