>I am testing this out. I ran proxcfg -U
>This is supposed to extract and use my IE proxy settings. It appeared to do so, but I still can't make it through the firewall. Do I know have to get my firewall admin to make changes at his end. He has never changed a setting for me in the 7 years I've made such requests. This is not looking good.

Remember, Evan: "Auto-discovery and configuration script-based proxy settings are not supported by WinHTTP" - please check if this is your case.

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