Auto-detect proxy settings

[JingleBells]

Using work internet, IE and Firefox auto-detect proxy/connection settings, however some pieces of software (read mIRC) don't seem to have an auto-detect function, is there anyway I can get firefox/IE/some-tool-or-other to spit out the connection settings they've auto-magically detected?

 

[phlash]

Possibly the web developer toolbar in Firefox would tell you that, or you could look at the output of netstat while fetching a page (ugly but you get the truth!)

 

[JingleBells]

After hunting through google, I stumbled across something called "Web Proxy Auto Disocvery Protocol", which is what IE/Firefox use to auto-detect their settings, to get the settings file I went to http://wpad.domain/ and it downloaded a file with the proxy in

However they seem to have blocked IRC



Anyone got shell access I can nick