Using a WPAD.dat Proxy with CleanMyOrg or BackupMyOrg

Owned by Steven McCall
Last updated: Nov 30, 2023
2 min read

The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) Protocol is a method used by clients to locate the URL of a configuration file using DHCP and/or DNS discovery methods. Once detection and download of the configuration file is complete, it can be executed to determine the proxy for a specified URL.

If your organization is using a WPAD.dat Proxy, you will need to configure CleanMyOrg and BackupMyOrg to enable fetches from the server to complete successfully.

To Enable WPAD.dat Proxy in BackupMyOrg

  1. Open the BackupMyOrg\BMOFetch\bmofetch.exe.config in Notepad

  2. At the bottom, if you have a commented-out <system.net> … </system.net> entry, uncomment those out on lines 33-37 so that they are enabled in the configuration. You can uncomment those lines by removing the <!-- and --> characters.

  3. If you do not see the <system.net> entries, paste in this code one line above the last line (</configuration>) as follows:

    <system.net> <defaultProxy enabled="true" useDefaultCredentials="true" > <proxy usesystemdefault="False" scriptLocation="https://yourproxyhere/wpad.dat"></proxy> </defaultProxy> </system.net>


    the </configuration> line should be the last line in this file.

  4. In the 3rd line shown above, change the scriptLocation to the location of your wpad.dat URL

  5. Save the config file and your proxy will be ready for use.

To Enable WPAD.dat Proxy in CleanMyOrg

  1. Open the CleanMyOrg\IWAFetch\iwafetch.exe.config in Notepad

  2. At the bottom, if you have a commented-out <http://system.net > … </system.net> entry, uncomment those out on lines 33-37 so that they are enabled in the configuration. You can uncomment those lines by removing the <!-- and --> characters.

  3. These lines will be shown as follows:

    <system.net> <defaultProxy enabled="true" useDefaultCredentials="true" > <proxy usesystemdefault="False" scriptLocation="https://yourproxyhere/wpad.dat"></proxy> </defaultProxy> </system.net>

     

    the </configuration> line should be the last line in this file.

  4. On the 3rd line shown above, change the scriptLocation to the location of your wpad.dat URL

  5. Save the config file and your proxy will be ready for use.