Thursday, December 01, 2011

Show Internet Explorer auto-detected proxy settings

How to view Internet Explorer auto-detected proxy settings?
Was at a customer site and needed to update eclipse, maven, etc.  And the client just said use "auto-detected proxy" in IE, firefox, etc.  To find out the proxy used just open a browser and go to the url

http://wpad/wpad.dat

download the file and the contents should show you the proxy being used.