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Re: How to retrieve proxy settings

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From: Martin Nijhoff
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:34
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> If the used registry key does not exist on another OS then what I do
> in such a case is searching the registry for a known value. In your
> case the IP-address used by the proxie. First with IE look what the
> IP is and then with regedit look for that value.

I did this for WinXP and found the registry key. However, on other Windows
versions yet another key may be used, so this isn't a safe way to retrieve
the information I need. I was looking for some API call to do this.
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