How can I modify a proxy for the commands

IRLAMP · 03-27-2006, 07:18 AM

Hello

WE have 5 computers (4 with windows OS and 1 Linux OS) in our company and all are grouped and using shared internet using proxy program (CCPROXY) ,I can browsw the sites using the firefox, but through the Command ,none of the sites are pinged and accessible!

How can I modify a proxy for the command ,too?

Thanks

nx5000 · 03-27-2006, 11:13 AM

Either the command has an http_proxy option available and then you provide the good information or it has to be socksified (for getting through a socks proxy)
Some applications like wget and others use the environment variable http_proxy,ftp_proxy and they look at this variable before connecting to the net.
under bash:

Code:

export http_proxy="http://1.1.1.1:80"
export ftp_proxy="http://1.1.1.1:80"
wget http://www.kernel.org
--10:07:49--  http://www.kernel.org/
           => `index.html'
Connection to 1.1.1.1:80...connected.
[...]
10:07:50 (37.87 KB/s) - « index.html » saved [22301]

If its an http_proxy then the ping (different from http:web) will not use the proxy and will hit your router and if routing is disabled they will be blocked.