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December 5, 2007

Web Proxy Auto Discovery (WPAD) problems

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Hearing some noise today about Microsoft's faulty implementation of WPAD DNS record search. Seems they forgot to consider vast portions of the namespace including ccTLDs (like .cc) and the 3LD space (like amazon.co.uk).

I write about my personal experiences with WPAD here.

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