[Bug 28552] winhttp proxy doesn't work

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28552

--- Comment #8 from Hans Leidekker  2011-10-06 07:24:37 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> André, can you elaborate on that conclusion? You mean connect/WSAConnect
> detects the system proxy and try to communicate over it?
>
> What if only a HTTP proxy is configured it would be impossible to tunnel raw
> TCP sockets through HTTP in most of the cases due to the way http proxy works.
>
> If a SOCKS proxy is configured then I would agree it's possible to tunnel any
> connection through proxy.
>
> Or you mean when the connect/WSAConnect IP is the proxy IP the winsock dll
> tries to authenticate by itself using the correct configured protocol?
>
> I would like to understand how did you concluded about that.

My understanding is that .NET has its own HTTP stack implemented 
on top of ws2_32, which calls WinHttpDetectAutoProxyConfigUrl to
retrieve proxy settings. So ws2_32 itself has nothing to do with
detecting proxies.