Hi,
at my organization's network I need to access to some specific web sites through a public specific IP (for login purposes). This is working fine using a wpad file on the browser.

What I would like to do is a tcptraceroute (at port 80, UDP is blocked by the net administrator) to this said web sites using the same configuration of wpad.

Should I create an environment variable? How can I configure the wpad settings to route the tcptraceroute command?

Thanks in advance!

You first start by contacting the network or admin of your organization.

wpad and .pac files have never been well implemented in linux.

On the browser you have an entry however many command tools may have a separate config for how it handles proxy. Very few offer a way to automate proxy. I know of no distro that really lets you set a global proxy and have it used for text based tools.

Thanks for your reply @jefro
My intention is to do some routine check work without the need to contact the network administrator, who often take same time so answer...
As far as some cli tools work well with proxy set up as parameter or variable environment I was wondering what could I do with traceroute and wpad/pac.

You'd' have to look at how it uses the network. A lot of those cli programs could be some version and from some source. Find out what you have and then study how it interacts with network. May have a config file that you'd need to enter wpap proxy information. They usually have some text that can be read and may have a statement like direct.
Software manager or distro may have associated file listing. If it is stand alone and I suspect it is you may have to dig into source for some hard coded solution.


HOWever..... Many companies have firewalls that stop it anyway.