Appendix A

Automatic Proxy Configuration File

About this appendix

Using an automatic proxy configuration file is discussed in this guide as a strategy you can use for the following:

Providing user access to a NetCache appliance deployed as a Web cache
Providing failover for Web caching
Distributing requests over multiple NetCache appliance Web caches and third-party Web caches

Rather than repeating the description of automatic proxy configuration in each of these discussions, the basic information about this file is presented in this appendix. Discussions related to automatic proxy configuration in other parts of this guide refer to this appendix for the basic information.

Note
A proxy.pac file can be used in a GRM deployment to direct client requests to the closest GRM agent caches. That GRM agent cache can serve Web or streaming objects. See the Guide to Global Request Manager for more information.

Appendix contents

This appendix contains the following sections: