https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45255
--- Comment #2 from Luiz Angelo Daros De Luca luizluca@gmail.com ---
We'd like to defer editing of proxy settings to the host system as much as possible. Wine is just another application.
Why would you want to disable wpad in Wine only?
Because bug 43783. I needed to use a transparent proxy strategy.
Wpad isn't a host config but a network one. What are the options to not use it? Map wpad.domain to 0.0.0.0 in hosts? Filter it in firewall?
Wine could, although, use the same strategy that Google chrome does and use current desktop environment settings. It will also work just fine.