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Heh, WPAD from a local network webserver was how I used to ad-block ~10 years ago. It was easy to make and set up, helped with ad-blocking in both browsers and
by Arnavion 9y ago
Heh, WPAD from a local network webserver was how I used to ad-block ~10 years ago. It was easy to make and set up, helped with ad-blocking in both browsers and hosted web views like game launchers, and allowed always proxying some sites through a SOCKS5 proxy.
IE never sent the full URL to FindProxyForURL, and around 2017-02 Chrome followed suit, so I had to migrate it to a Chrome extension. I still have the wpad.dat configured on the network in case something still reads it.
- Shoothe 9y agoYep, WPAD is extremely useful and it's just JavaScript with some extra functions [0]! I've also used it to send *.company.com requests via local proxy to their servers and the rest via direct connections basically emulating split DNS without sending all traffic through their VPN. [0]: http://findproxyforurl.com/example-pac-file/ http://findproxyforurl.com/example-pac-file/