full-disclosure - Re: Proxy Autoconfiguration and Internet Explorer Zones

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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:41:59 -0400
From: "Elazar Broad" <elazar@...hmail.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au
Subject: Re: Proxy Autoconfiguration and Internet Explorer
	Zones

Probably, I completely missed that, and they do seem to be the 
defaults. I'll test it out tomorrow. Thanks Paul!

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:31:56 -0400 Paul Szabo 
<psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>Elazar,
>
>> ... Internet Explorer [with] proxy auto-configuration ...
>> The pac file specifies a direct connection for a specific sub-
>net.
>> ... ending up in the Local Intranet zone ...
>
>When going to Tools InternetOptions Security LocalIntranet Sites,
>my IE7 has all of
>  Include all local (intranet) sites not listed in other zones
>  Include all sites that bypass the proxy server
>  Include all network paths (UNCs)
>selected/ticked. Would unticking the second (or all) fix this?
>(I do not know whether those are default settings; that last 
>setting
>seems dangerous or at least counter-intuitive.)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   
>http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
>School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    
>Australia

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