Is it possible to tell emacs on Windows to use the IE http proxy settings?

Question

See also: Emacs behind HTTP proxy

Is it possible to tell emacs to automatically use whatever proxy settings are in use by IE?

Answer 1

If you are handling URL's via browse-url, you can also set it to Windows-specific function like this. Then the URL's will be handled by Windows (invoking your default browser).

browse-url-browser-function is a variable defined in `browse-url.el'.

Its value is browse-url-default-windows-browser