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Questions tagged [http-proxy]

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Are HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY environment variables standard?

It seems that a lot of programs are designed to read these environment variables to decide what proxy to go through in order to connect to a resource on the internet. Those programs may also have their own, individual proxy settings, but if those…
Niko Bellic
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How to ping when behind a proxy?

I am using an HTTP proxy server to connect to the internet. Because of that my pings are not working ping www.google.com says Unreachable Host How can I configure ping to use the HTTP proxy?
Lazer
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http proxy over ssh, not socks

The question is simple, but the answer is not : ssh -D 8080 user@host or ssh -gCNf -D 8080 user@host or wathever with -D # I need a kind of proxy that i can use with http_proxy variable, in an embedded device that doesn't support SOCKS. What…
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How to use special characters in username/password for HTTP proxy?

I am trying to setup an HTTP proxy on a Windows machine. Problem is, the password has a special character (@) in it that is causing the set command to fail. I have tried both escaping the character (\@) and percent-encoding it with the hex value…
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How to specify that Yum should not use proxy for specific domain

Is it possible to specify domain for which yum should bypass proxy configuration? I'm afraid this is not possible... I read that it was possible to use the environment variable HTTP_PROXY then NO_PROXY, is it the most elegant solution? [EDIT] I…
chepseskaf
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MinGW installer not working with proxy

Situation I want to install minGW and msys on a work pc, but I'm behind a proxy. The proxy settings are configured to auto detect in both internet explorer and firefox. The proxy is a http proxy on port 80 that requires authentification. I also have…
youR.Fate
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Cannot start CNTLM

When I try to start CNTLM, it fails. If I check in my Windows Event Log I see the message: starting service 'cntlm' failed: fork 11, Resource temporarily unavailable It worked before I updated to the latest Windows 10 (from 1511 to 1607). How can…
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Windows7 command: set http_proxy and bypass

I am sitting behind a company proxy. To start vagrant i had to use set HTTP_proxy=http://http-proxy.example.org:9999 i tryed using netsh winhttp but that didn't work. So now my command line uses the proxy, but now it also uses it for localhost /…
Andresch Serj
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HTTPS_PROXY vs https_proxy

as I know, Linux is case-sensitive. and I usually export the http proxy like the below: export http_proxy= proxy:port export https_proxy= proxy:port so I think that if I wrote like the below, it would work. export HTTP_PROXY= proxy:port export…
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Authenticated proxy for Windows 8

I'm behind an authenticated proxy, and I'm planning on installing Windows 8. I know that one can set the proxy settings for the apps via netsh winhttp. I remember that one cannot set authentication settings via netsh (atleast not on Windows 7, I…
Manishearth
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What is the difference between "CONNECT" and "GET HTTPS"?

Before getting to the real question, let me explain how my project works: for sake of simplicity, my proxy is on my laptop, where the client (my browser) also is; the remote server will be, for example, YouTube. The client is connected to a specific…
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Ping with proxy authentication in windows

I am trying to ping google.com from my computer. I use a Internet connection which works on a proxy and requires proxy authentication. I have been using linux till now and there we can easily modify the yum.conf file to ping a site. Is there any…
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How to get Thunderbird to work through HTTP proxy server?

I would like to access my personal IMAP server through my corporate firewall. This is allowed provided I use the corporate proxy server, which is an HTTP proxy server. I cannot figure out how to configure Thunderbird to honor this proxy server,…
Joe Casadonte
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How to encrypt connection to a squid proxy server

I've set up an anonymous squid proxy server, and it works completely fine, but I haven't found anything about how to encrypt the traffic between me and the server itself. Where to start?
Rápli András
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Map Local (like Charles Proxy) using Open Source

Is there a way to use Wireshark or some other freeware to get an outcome like one gets when using Charles' Map Local capability? The way it works in Charles is that you can specify a set of files/folders which are replaced with files from your local…
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