{"id":6808,"date":"2012-09-30T10:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:17:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:17:44","slug":"web-proxy-autodiscovery-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6808","title":{"rendered":"Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The <strong>Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol<\/strong> (<strong>WPAD<\/strong>) is a method used by clients to locate a URL of a configuration file using DHCP and\/or DNS discovery methods. Once detection and download of the configuration file is complete it can be executed to determine the proxy for a specified URL. The WPAD protocol only outlines the mechanism for discovering the location of this file, but the most commonly deployed configuration file format is the <a title=\"Proxy auto-config\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proxy_auto-config\">Proxy auto-config<\/a> format originally designed by <a title=\"Netscape\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netscape\">Netscape<\/a> in 1996 for <a title=\"Netscape Navigator\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netscape_Navigator\">Netscape Navigator 2.0<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wpad#cite_note-0\"><span>[<\/span>1<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> The WPAD protocol was drafted by a consortium of companies including <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Inktomi Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inktomi_Corporation\">Inktomi Corporation<\/a>, <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft\">Microsoft Corporation<\/a>, <a title=\"RealNetworks\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RealNetworks\">RealNetworks, Inc.<\/a>, and <a title=\"Sun Microsystems\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun_Microsystems\">Sun Microsystems, Inc.<\/a>. WPAD is documented in an INTERNET-DRAFT which expired in December 1999.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wpad#cite_note-1\"><span>[<\/span>2<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> However WPAD is still supported by all major browsers.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wpad#cite_note-2\"><span>[<\/span>3<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wpad#cite_note-3\"><span>[<\/span>4<span>]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> WPAD was first included with <a title=\"Internet Explorer 5\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_Explorer_5\">Internet Explorer 5.0<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wpad\">Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD) is a method used by clients to locate a URL of a configuration file using DHCP and\/or DNS discovery methods. Once detection and download of the configuration file is complete it can be executed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[261,323,857],"class_list":["post-6808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-definition","tag-protocols","tag-wpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16434,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/16434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}