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Your wpad.dat should be on a web server. For example, on your local machine you should have IIS WWW installed and the file placed in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot and configure local proxy to <a href="http://localhost/wpad.dat" rel="ugc">http://localhost/wpad.dat</a>.<br />
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See article at<br />
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc995261.aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc995261.aspx</a>
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Your wpad.dat should be on a web server. For example, on your local machine you should have IIS WWW installed and the file placed in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot and configure local proxy to http://localhost/wpad.dat [http://localhost/wpad.dat].

See article at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc995261.aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc995261.aspx]

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with the third slash works like a charm
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I am testing a wpad.dat issue. so i put my wpad.dat in system32/Drivers/etc and i tried with c:\\ and FILE://<br />
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with both ie10 ignores my local wpad completly.<br />
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Do i miss anything. I do not want to use dhcp or dns i just want to test the file in ie10.
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I am testing a wpad.dat issue. so i put my wpad.dat in system32/Drivers/etc and i tried with c:\\ and FILE://

with both ie10 ignores my local wpad completly.

Do i miss anything. I do not want to use dhcp or dns i just want to test the file in ie10.

IE10 ignores local wpad.dat file

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