[Bug 45255] Provide easy way to configure proxy (winecfg?)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45255

--- Comment #3 from Hans Leidekker <hans at 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.

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