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

For Firefox/Seamonkey, the problem is a bit more tricky because of the existence of many profiles.

If you want to assume there is only one profile then you just need to find prefs.js. You parse the network.proxy.type, and then use it to decide, which related values to read.

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