Which accessType should I use when calling InternetOpen?

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Published on 2010-05-20T18:11:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 18:20 UTC
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According to the MSDN, you can specify an access type parameter to InternetOpen. Two of the options for the dwAccessType parameter are:

INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT - Resolves all host names locally. INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG - Retrieves the proxy or direct configuration from the registry.

Which of these should I use? I don't know which would be "better". We don't want our application to do anything clever, all we want it to do is access the internet in a normal way.

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