Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The "http_proxy" environment variable - Setup proxy setting in a linux machine.

If you need to use proxy server to access http/https from a linux machine in the office LAN, set the environment variable http_proxy. This will allow wget and python's urllib modules and other applications (yum, apt-get etc) to use this environment variable and access http/https using the settings assigned to the variable http_proxy.

The below would be the ideal way of assigning values for http_proxy variable.

$export http_proxy="http://<proxy-server-ip>:<port>"

I have added this to my ~/.bashrc so that I don't have to export this variable every time I reboot my machine !

And then there is the "ftp_proxy" .....