Support "Automatic proxy detection" under windows

[pfeigl]

Feature request's description
We are in a situation, where we constantly switch between beeíng connected to a corporate VPN and not beeing connected to it.

Our windows proxy setting is always set to automatic detection.

While we are connected to the corporate VPN, windows manages to identify that it should use the PAC file and configures the proxy based upon it.

However when we leave the VPN, windows sees, that there is no longer a PAC available and uses a DIRECT connection.

This setup seems to be not supported by winfoom directly right now. I can obviously change between PAC and DIRECT manually whenever I connect / disconnect the VPN, but thats not a good workflow.

The solution
Winfoom simply uses the proxy which windows would also use

Alternatives
Not sure how easy the windows proxy can be checked. An alternative could be to simply check the existance of the wpad file in regular timeframes (ideally every few seconds) and if it's not there, simply fallback to DIRECT.

Does this request make sense? Should it be supported already and I'm doing something wrong?

[pfeigl]

Btw, https://github.com/genotrance/px can do what I ask for (you might check how they are doing it). However they are GUI-less and do not support autostart and running as a service in the background.

[ecovaci]

This feature is already implemented. In graphical mode, see Seetings -> Use system proxy settings