https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48870
--- Comment #12 from Jan Essert netz@lytenyn.de --- I have thought about it, and I actually do the following:
- Have the necessary DNS information to serve wpad.dat - Instead of serving it over http, perform a 301 redirect to https (which is probably a mistake) - Then serve it with a self-signed certificate (which is probably also a mistake).
However, I believe wine should either simply not use that wpad.dat or use it, but not crash. So I believe the bug is still kinda valid.
Also, I believe the program worked in a VM on Windows on the same network, but it's hard to say because the network configuration of the VM was also tricky.