Is it possible? Can proxies somehow “advertise” themselves the way some media services or printers do?

  • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    For most networks, a proxy would be best done though dhcp option 252, which allows specifying a URL that contains a wpad configuration file, or through DNS.

    However that’s less annoucement and more making the service discoverable.

  • hex123456English
    3·
    1 year ago

    Any service can advertise itself using zeroconf but you’d need to establish a service type for proxy and have a client(browser) know to watch for it and connect through automatically (if approved by user)….

  • shifty51English
    2·
    1 year ago

    Depending on the environment you can often use wpad (windows proxy auto-discover) you have to be able to host a PAC file someplace and have a domain, but it fits for your use case.