On Thursday 29 April 2010 03:44:37 Jason Haar wrote: > On 04/29/2010 02:38 AM, Heiko Hund wrote: > > If the service is started by the GUI it still makes sense to use user > > specific proxy settings, doesn't it? One could consider auto-proxy for > > auto-started VPNs a misconfiguration, as well. Or am I mislead? > > I think it's critical. Most enterprise networks have egress filtering > (ie default to blocking outbound with business-exceptions) and web > access via proxies. They will use WPAD (via HTTP or DHCP) or perhaps > they are a Windows shop and use Active Directory policies to "tell" MSIE > how to operate on a particular network. Don't forget enterprise networks > tend to span continents and so static entries are not appropriate - > different proxies for different sites within the same company are common.
I agree. Had assumed that WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser and InternetQueryOption are returning the proxy from WPAD if IE is set to automatic mode. Do you know if they do? Heiko -- Heiko Hund | Software Engineer | Phone +49-721-25516-237 | Fax -200 Astaro GmbH & Co. KG | An der RaumFabrik 33a | 76227 Karlsruhe | Germany Astaro GmbH & Co. KG Commercial Register: Mannheim HRA 702710 Headquarter Location: Karlsruhe Represented by the General Partner Astaro Verwaltungs GmbH An der RaumFabrik 33a | 76227 Karlsruhe | Germany Commercial Register: Mannheim HRB 708248 Executive Board: Gert Hansen, Markus Hennig, Jan Hichert, Günter Junk, Dr. Frank Nellissen
