The Wikipedia article Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol is very informative about this topic. |
This will only be used when the web browser is configured to
auto-detect proxy settings. With the domain wpad.army this service is
available for all the *.army domains which do not run their own WPAD
service. It delivers a wpad.dat to the browser
and tells it to use the direct internet connection without any proxy
server. #defcon32 shoutout to Tooms |