Here's the situation: I have a program that needs to access a website through a proxy server. The program itself does not have the ability to set a proxy server so I need to do one of the following:

1) Create a setting that channels all traffic to a certain destination website through a proxy server that I set

OR

2) Make sure all HTTP requests go through this proxy server


Since I am a lame-ass Windoze guy struggling to switch to Linux I'm not sure how to go about doing this on Linux. I did find one proxy setting through Preferences -> Network Proxy but that setting is having no effect.

Am I missing something? Just completely lame?

Please help.

Ryan

have you tried setting http_proxy in you env?

try this:

export http_proxy=http://your_proxy_serverortnumber/

and re-run the program.

also, try and search for "transparent proxy howto". that should give you what you need.

Ok, sounds good ... If I run this from a shell prompt, will it be global across all sessions, or does it need to be run in the session the program is running in?

Is there somewhere specific within Linux I search for the "howto" or just on Google? Or on LQ ... there's and idea (pardon me, no coffee yet).
Just a mouth-breathing windoze guy trying to better himself

Ok, I've tried the export command, no success. There was no effect on the http requests.

The Transport Proxy using Squid did not seem to be what I'm after (could be wrong).

I'm playing with something called transproxy now.