Setting Proxy Environment in UNIX

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Setting Proxy Environment in UNIX

Posted by mike on Monday, June 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The easiest and best way to set proxy information on your Linux/Unix machine is with the http_proxy environment variable in your ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or whatever your favorite shell’s configuration file is. Set it like this:

http://user:password@proxy-server:portnum

In my brief bit of experimentation, the follow important (to me, at least) command-line tools use http_proxy:

wget
Python easy_install
curl

I’ve been a Unix user for 14 years — why did I take me so long to figure this out?

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