Finding Internet Explorer proxy config

Jeppe has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Esteemed Monks,

I am having some trouble at a customer's. They have difficulty figuring out their exact proxy configuration. I need it for some LWP stuff.

So, the logical question becomes: How do I figure out the active proxy configuration of Internet Explorer?

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Re: Finding Internet Explorer proxy config by Ieronim (Friar) on Jul 11, 2006 at 12:40 UTC
Have a look here: Proxy settings of different browsers. MSIE's proxy configuration is stored in the registry at the key `HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet S +ettings` [download] Win32::TieRegistry allows you to extract it easily. (or not so easily, but it at least makes it possible :))	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Finding Internet Explorer proxy config by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 11, 2006 at 12:40 UTC
Jeppe, I believe that IE uses the environent variables for its proxy configuration, the variable 'HTTP_proxy' etc, type set from a command line to see all of these. The code below, adapted from lwpcook (under Proxies), should be of use to you. `use LWP::UserAgent; $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->env_proxy; # initialize from environment variables my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'wais://xxx.com/'); print $ua->request($req)->as_string;` [download] Update: As Ieronim has pointed out here my belief is wrong :) Hope this helps. Martin	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Finding Internet Explorer proxy config by Ieronim (Friar) on Jul 11, 2006 at 12:45 UTC
Unfortunaly, Internet Explorer does not use the HTTP_proxy environment variable. It fetches all info from Windows Registry :(	[reply]
Re^3: Finding Internet Explorer proxy config by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 11, 2006 at 12:46 UTC
Gadzooks! Thanks for pointing this out Ieronim. I sit corrected. Martin	[reply]
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