Is it possible to get WPAD working in Windows 11?

[GenuineLAPRAS]

Hello,I have had a support ticket open with Microsoft engineers for over 3 months now and no one seems able to assist me.I have a pfsense device setup and it is also acting the WPAD supplier for a squid proxy it hosts.I have WPAD set up by both DNS resolving wpad and wpad.mydomain.com and I also have DHCP option 252 set sending "http://wpad.mydomain.com/wpad.dat" in the DHCP options.Now this is the interesting thing, if I set the proxy settings to automatic in Windows 11, I would assume it would use the WPAD file right? Well that only seems to be half right.Edge and other browsers like fi

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