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[Matti Saarinen <mjsaarin AT cc.helsinki.fi>]

Hi,

During this autumn, we have been getting reports from Apple users that
they cannot reach certain web sites from eduroam. My colleagues who are
familiar with Apple products told me that it's eduroam CAT and its Proxy
= Auto-Detect setting that is causing the problem. Also, the same
setting makes Outlook on OS X crash occasionally.

So, my questions are: Can I tune the Proxy setting somehow? Can I do
something else to circumvent the issue if altering CAT is not possible?
Is this an issue that only we have seen? Locally, I can tune DHCP to
send option that points to our local www caches and that would probably
work.

WPAD has also security issues:

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3106076/data-protection/disable-wpad-now-or-have-your-accounts-and-private-data-compromised.html



Cheers,

Matti