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When Internet Explorer is set to auto-detect proxy settings, is there a way to view what it detects?

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Good question and I want to know as well. – ymasood Sep 1 '09 at 12:20
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@ymasood that's what the little ^ arrow is for – Aidan Ryan Sep 1 '09 at 12:33
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The settings are retrieved from http://wpad/wpad.dat which is a javascript file describing which proxy server should be used in which situation. Your best bet is to open that URL and figure the proxy out from the contents it returns.

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Ah, excellent. Here is more detail on the Web Proxy AutoDiscovery protocol: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol – Aidan Ryan Sep 1 '09 at 23:22
Are you sure that's the link? What's wpad's top level domain? – Nathan Fellman Oct 10 '09 at 8:38
Oh... I see. I should use wpad in my local domain – Nathan Fellman Oct 11 '09 at 6:20
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