User friendly proxy configuration

[Cameron Simpson]

On 18Nov2014 02:31, Bill Shirley <bshirley at memphis.apirx.biz> wrote:
>You can put this in your ~/.bashrc:
>export http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:3128"
>export ftp_proxy="ftp://127.0.0.1:3128"

They both need to be "http://127.0.0.1:3128/"; the proxy protocol is HTTP, 
hence the same scheme for each. Also https_proxy. Of course, adjusted for 
whatever is correct.

>I'm not sure how many utilities use it but I think wget does.

Quite a few.

However, the point of the OP was to set this at a system level as a default for 
many machines, so the .bashrc is pretty much the worst place to want to put 
this, being a per-user setting (and only for those using bash, and only for 
settings where that is involved in invoking applications).

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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