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

There are registry keys for these values that you could get to directly of course. You could also do this in .NET without much hassle at all. I believe the WebClient object negotiates the proxy settings for you based on the current settings. This would look like this in C#:

using System.Net;

string url = "http://www.example.com";
WebClient client = new WebClient();
byte[] fileBuffer = client.DownloadFile(url);

Or something close to that.