Configure client proxy server settings by using a registry file

Configure client proxy server settings by using a registry file

Create a Windows registry file to configure the proxy server settings on a client computer that is running Microsoft Internet Explorer or Windows Internet Explorer.


You can automatically configure the proxy server settings on a client computer by updating the client computer registry. To do this, create a registry file that contains the registry settings you want to update, and then distribute it to the client computer by using a batch file or logon script.

To configure the proxy server settings on a client computer, create the following .reg file to populate the registry with the proxy server information:

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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MigrateProxy"=dword:00000001
"ProxyEnable"=dword:00000001
"ProxyHttp1.1"=dword:00000000
"ProxyServer"="http://ProxyServername:80"
"ProxyOverride"=""

About Proxy Server

In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) which services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server. The proxy server provides the resource by connecting to the specified server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client's request or the server's response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it would 'cache' the first request to the remote server, so it could save the information for later, and make everything as fast as possible.

A proxy server that passes all requests and replies unmodified is usually called a gateway or sometimes tunneling proxy.

A proxy server can be placed in the user's local computer or at specific key points between the user and the destination servers or the Internet.

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