On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:38:44PM +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote: > Phillip Pi wrote: > >Question about this proxycfg.exe in XP: Does this work for all Internet > >program? I can get it to work with IE (v6-v7) and CDBurnerXP (to > >download its update for the program), but not Firefox. I read that the > >program has to know winHTTP. Am I understanding this correctly? If so, > >then how do I know which programs support that to do proxy? > > The command is born from the fact that MS use more than one 'web access' > DLL API for their web backend(s) in Windows XP. IE sets the config for > one of the DLL, certain apps (WU amongst them) use the other library. > The command syncs the settings used by both DLL, nothing more. > > So the result is that various MS software are 'fixed' and start working > again with a proxy or after a proxy config is changed. But most non-MS > software is not affected.
Thanks. Is there a list of non-MS programs that use this? It seems like it is WinHTTP API?
