**Found**: Reading settings from (after) automatic proxy configuration

[Engineer]

I've searched for two days and maybe I just don't know how to word the search but I'm looking for a way to read the settings pulled in from automatic proxy settings (i.e. internet explorer, tools, connections, lan, automatically detect connections). Once detected, anyone know how I can see the proxy and port information? Hopefully, this isn't so simple that it makes me look stupid, lol.

And "No", I don't have access to the proxy server directly (I don't even know what it's named, lol) so I cannot see the Wpad.dat file (that I know of) to get the settings.

Thanks in advance.

 

[spidey07]

It should show it in the fields. DHCP has to be setup to provide proxy server and it's not used very often.

 

[jlazzaro]

are you getting the PAC from DHCP or DNS? it wouldnt show in the fields as its using an automatic script to probobly return different proxies for different source/destinations. you have access to the file, else you wouldn't be able to pull it down. just do to a quick packet capture and see where you computer is pulling the PAC from. Once you have the path, just manually pull it down and examine.

then again, why not just ask your IT folks?

 

[Engineer]

Found it. Thanks.

Simply did the following...

http:\\wpad.domain-name-here\wpad.dat (replace domain name with company network domain name) and it popped the wpad.dat file up in notepad. Proxy server and port was listed.