posted 17 years ago
So you get some connection information from the desktop client and additionally you want to use any rules he has put in his browser?
I dont know a way to do that, possibly iexplorer or other browser provide some api to get that. I am doubtful though because you have not at all started a browser instance and you want some settings from it. Additionally, how will you handle if the user has mozilla installed instead?
From the usability perspective:
This idea seems very non-intutive to me. If a user has wrongly specified something in his browser and he runs your application, he will have no idea of why you did not use the proxy for a url.