{"id":18069,"date":"2015-01-20T14:28:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T19:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=18069"},"modified":"2015-01-20T18:01:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T23:01:23","slug":"winhttp-pac-file-caching-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/winhttp-pac-file-caching-location\/","title":{"rendered":"WinHTTP PAC File Caching Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"WinHTTP PAC file cache location in Windows 8.1 shown in Explorer.\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/107680-1\/winhttp_cache_location.PNG\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When troubleshooting issues with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proxy_auto-config\">proxy auto-config (PAC) files<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/windows\/desktop\/aa382925%28v=vs.85%29.aspx\">WinHTTP<\/a> on Windows 8.1 you may wish to view the cached PAC files which the\u00a0<em>WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service<\/em> have written to disk. These cached PAC files can be found in <code>c:\\Windows\\ServiceProfiles\\LocalService\\winhttp\u00a0<\/code>and are named with a nine digit number and a cache extension (eg:\u00a0<code>1667635681.cache<\/code>). There is also a <code>cachev3.dat<\/code> file which appears to contain the download location of the PAC file, the MIME type of the file, and the download date\/time.<\/p>\n<p>This can be discovered by using Process Monitor with a filter of <em>Path contains winhttp<\/em> when the <em>WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service<\/em> is\u00a0started (<code>net start\u00a0WinHttpAutoProxySvc<\/code>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When troubleshooting issues with proxy auto-config (PAC) files\u00a0and WinHTTP on Windows 8.1 you may wish to view the cached PAC files which the\u00a0WinHTTP Web Proxy&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/winhttp-pac-file-caching-location\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WinHTTP PAC File Caching Location<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18078,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18069\/revisions\/18078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}