https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45255
--- Comment #3 from Hans Leidekker hans@meelstraat.net --- (In reply to Luiz Angelo Daros De Luca from comment #2)
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.
Understood, but we're interested in fixing these bugs so workarounds won't be needed.
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?
I'd say whether wpad is used or not is a host configuration option.
Wine could, although, use the same strategy that Google chrome does and use current desktop environment settings. It will also work just fine.
Yes, this is how we want support proxy settings. Hopefully we won't need separate implementations for each Linux desktop environment.