Talk:Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol

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In order to add some more details on Proxy auto configuration, I have split this page into two, reviving the old Proxy auto-config page. It could be argued that all information conceptually fits into one page. However, this page should then be called "Proxy configuration" or "Proxy auto-config" and discuss the details of all three levels: manual configuration, PAC and WDAP, each adding another layer of automatisation on top of the previous level.

Yaakov Belch

The Site-local options section feels a bit rough (and inappropriate in tone); the second sentence particularly has suffered grammatical/editing errors that have muddied its meaning. I've already changed the _ASCII Italics_ into real italics, but I'm not about to touch the rest since it was precisely what I was trying to find out in the first place. 202.27.216.35 08:00, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

The MIME type of the JavaScript configuration file is listed in the article as application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig; however, I've found one reference [1] that specifies that this is an old, deprecated MIME type and that conforming sites should instead use application/x-javascript-config. David McBride 14:50, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

On the front page it claims Opera supports WPAD, this isn't the case and the author might have been confusing supporting .pac files, which it does support. Plenty of requests on the Opera forum to support this, but they don't seem interested.