User friendly proxy configuration

[Bill Shirley]

The OP was talking about running a centralized proxy.  Put this in /etc/profile or /etc/inputrc (can't remember which) 
per machine.

Sorry not to have spelled it out.

Bill


On 11/18/2014 4:22 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> 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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