[tor-bugs] #10806 [Tor Launcher]: Tor Launcher should be able to detect proxies automatically

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#10806: Tor Launcher should be able to detect proxies automatically
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     Reporter:  Sherief       |      Owner:  brade
         Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor Launcher  |    Version:
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Comment (by mcs):

 This sounds like a reasonable request, although it may make more sense to
 put this functionality in tor rather than in Tor Launcher (the 'auto-
 detect' and 'use system' options will require checking and potential
 reconfiguration of the tor proxy settings each time TBB is started).

 I also suspect this is not trivial to implement.  Here is a reference for
 auto-detect:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol

 Obviously Firefox has code to support all four options; in a perfect world
 we could use that implementation somehow.

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