Hi all,

I've got a bit of tricky situation with a Red Hat box, our network uses a proxy server to connect to the internet. I've exported its address using "export http_proxy=http://usernameassword@server_iport" and to test I ran a wget against www.google.co.za and got a response, but using elinks to connect to google gives a proxy requires authentication error. It cant possibly be the credentials as wget can connect. I've confirmed that the proxy was exported by running "env | grep -i proxy", I also tried appending that line on both "/etc/profile" and/or "/root/.bash_profile" with no luck. one other thing I noticed is that passing those arguments directly to elinks works, not only this but "ssh -X server_ip_address" then running firefox& and giving it the proxy address also works. Is the any other way to make this line global, meaning to tell all applications that require internet connection to use the proxy? The server is sitting at a remote location and I only have access to a shell.

Thanks and hope I gave enough info on the problem

Hi tsh3po,

Just put the following line in /etc/environment and then the proxy setting will be global:

http_proxy="http://userw@proxyaddressort"

Where, user will be the user name you will use for proxy authentication and pw will be the password for that user.

Edit: You can put the above line in /etc/profile to make it global for all users.

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