Global proxy setting

petestaar · 02-14-2008, 12:33 PM

Hello..

I work from behind a proxy server, and I can't manage to get the proxy settings work in Mepis 7. This means I can't use the package manger and apt-get install. I can browse the web though, by setting proxy settings in Firefox.

I have tried to setup a HTTP and FTP proxy in KDE 'control center' ->'Internet & Network'->'Proxy'->'Man. specify proxy settings'.

This however have no effect. I can man. setup proxy settings for every application that uses a HTTP/FTP connection.

Is there any other way to specify any global proxy settings in Mepis?

unSpawn · 02-15-2008, 06:02 AM

I only know the distro-agnostic way of setting up proxy env vars and for a shell like BaSH which sources /etc/profile that is to add them to a resource in /etc/profile.d/. Create a file called /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh and give it octal rights 0644. These should be the contents:

Code:

L_UID=`grep ^UID_MIN /etc/login.defs 2>/dev/null|awk '{print $2}'`; [ -z $L_UID ] && L_UID=500
if [ `id -g` -ge $L_UID ]; then
 export FTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080/
 export HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080/
 export HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080/
 #export NO_PROXY=10.10.1.0
fi

The L_UID is to avoid giving system users proxy env. If you need it comment out the first, second and last line. Replace "127.0.0.1:8080" with the address you use. Log out of your account and back in. Open a terminal window and type 'env' to check.

Lexus45 · 11-10-2011, 09:06 PM

Code:

L_UID=`grep ^UID_MIN /etc/login.defs 2>/dev/null|awk '{print $2}'`; [ -z $L_UID ] && L_UID=500
if [ `id -g` -ge $L_UID ]; then
 export FTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080/
 export HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080/
 export HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080/
 #export NO_PROXY=10.10.1.0
fi

Hello.
Seems strange, this advice doesn't work for me.

I tried several variants in the script:

export HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080/
export HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.server.fqdn:8080/
export HTTP_PROXY=proxy.server.fqdn:8080

but the are no logs from my IP address in the proxy log file. When I set it manually in browser, the traffic starts going through the proxy, so it [proxy] works fine.

What's wrong?!

Lexus45 · 11-12-2011, 11:47 AM

Well, what I've found:
if we set the global proxy through Bash, not all programs will "see" this settings. And even if we do it via GNOME global proxy settings, the result may be the same. :-)

jefro · 11-13-2011, 12:35 PM

Proxies generally work in distros as long as they are simple. Proxy.pac files have never worked and you have to manually find the proxy address and port and put it in each app.

Be warned that companies block a lot of that and might not be too happy you are trying it on their system.