How do I find out the browser's proxy settings?

Question

I am writing a command-line tool for Windows that uses libcurl to download files from the internet.

Obviously, the downloading doesn\'t work when the user is behind

Answer 1

Here is a complete code sample how to call WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser method from winhttp.dll library in C#

[TestClass]
public class UnitTest1
{
    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
    public struct WinhttpCurrentUserIeProxyConfig
    {
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
        public bool AutoDetect;
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]
        public string AutoConfigUrl;
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]
        public string Proxy;
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]
        public string ProxyBypass;

    }

    [DllImport("winhttp.dll", SetLastError = true)]
    static extern bool WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser(ref WinhttpCurrentUserIeProxyConfig pProxyConfig);

    [TestMethod]
    public void TestMethod1()
    {
        var config = new WinhttpCurrentUserIeProxyConfig();

        WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser(ref config);

        Console.WriteLine(config.Proxy);
        Console.WriteLine(config.AutoConfigUrl);
        Console.WriteLine(config.AutoDetect);
        Console.WriteLine(config.ProxyBypass);
    }
}