{"id":3757,"date":"2017-09-10T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2017-09-10T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T05:14:13","slug":"aside-ie11-does-silently-ignores-file-server-locations-for-pac-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/aside-ie11-does-silently-ignores-file-server-locations-for-pac-file\/","title":{"rendered":"[Aside] IE11 does silently ignores file server locations for PAC file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had encountered this the hard way some months ago, but today I was Googling on this to share the same with a colleague. Starting with IE 11 you <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/internet-explorer\/ie11-deploy-guide\/auto-proxy-configuration-settings-for-ie11\">cannot use file server locations<\/a> (e.g. <code>c:\\windows\\global.pac<\/code> or <code>\\\\mydomain\\dfs\\global.pac<\/code>) for the PAC file. You have to use an HTTP or HTTPS location (e.g. <code>http:\/\/myserver\/global.pac<\/code>).<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to change a registry key to enable this behavior. This and other nuggets of info can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/ieinternals\/2013\/10\/11\/understanding-web-proxy-configuration\/\">this wonderful MSDN article on web proxy configuration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s WinINET and WinHTTP proxy settings. WinINET is the one you set via IE. WinHTTP is the one you set via <code>netsh winhttp<\/code> I think.<\/li>\n<li>Firefox uses the WinINET settings if set to use system proxy settings.<\/li>\n<li>Proxy settings are per user, but can be changed via a registry key to be for all users of a machine.<\/li>\n<li>Automatically detect settings looks for the <code>wpad.&lt;domainname&gt;<\/code> entry or uses DHCP to get a proxy script URL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had encountered this the hard way some months ago, but today I was Googling on this to share the same with a colleague. Starting with IE 11 you cannot use file server locations (e.g. c:\\windows\\global.pac or \\\\mydomain\\dfs\\global.pac) for the PAC file. You have to use an HTTP or HTTPS location (e.g. http:\/\/myserver\/global.pac). It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/aside-ie11-does-silently-ignores-file-server-locations-for-pac-file\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Aside] IE11 does silently ignores file server locations for PAC file<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[258,85],"tags":[777,778,646,779],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}