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A method of connecting to the internet through an intermediary (a proxy server) which handles connections and redirects them.

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How do I configure proxies without GUI?

How do you configure proxy settings in the Ubuntu Server or Minimal (CLI) versions using the terminal?
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How do I set a system wide proxy with a username and password?

I'm trying to set a system wide proxy, and I'm specifically having difficulties with apt-get for installing applications on my Ubuntu. I'm in a university using a proxy server with username/password. I'm aware of setting a proxy with username and…
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How to access blocked sites?

I am in Pakistan and YouTube is blocked here. I want to take the Lecture videos from YouTube. In Windows, I was using Hotspotshield to bypass the proxy. But now, using Ubuntu, I don't know how to bypass the proxy. I found some where that i can…
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How can I find out the proxy address I am behind?

I am behind a proxy, but I don't know the URL/port. Is there a way to find this out? Thanks,
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Enable proxy settings at work, disable proxy settings at home?

At work, I have a proxy set on many files/applications. In /apt/apt/apt.conf I have Acquire::http::Proxy "http://myproxy.example.com:8888" set. In /etc/wgetrc I have: https_proxy = myproxy.example.com:8888 http_proxy =…
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Set up Proxy server on Ubuntu

Few years ago I have configured proxy server on freebsd by IT guys. it's functions register computers by MAC address. filter web sites, messengers, downloads set few computers without internet access set some computers with limited internet…
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How to make curl use proxy automatically

Today I configured the PC of my company to setup a proxy and it worked because I can wget web page via proxy. What I did is set http_proxy, https_proxy and ftp_proxy in the ~/.bashrc and in the ~/.wgetrc. However, when I tried to curl www.google.fr,…
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How to escape @ symbol in enviroment file?

I have my /etc/environment file set up with proxy settings. It looks like this - http_proxy="http://userName:password@proxy:port/" https_prxoxy="http://userName:password@proxy:port/" The password contains an @ symbol which somehow seems to be…
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"@" in the password breaks exporting proxy variable

I have at the rate in the password (@) that I use to authenticate and use internet in my college. But to set proxy settings from the terminal we have to separate password and proxy host with @. Ubuntu is mistaking my @ in the password to this…
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cntlm works for http but not https

I have installed and configured cntlm on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit build (running in VirtualBox). The Network Proxy setting is pointing to cntlm (localhost:3128) for both HTTP and HTTPS proxies. Through Firefox, http URLs work, but https URLs are…
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How do we prevent users from changing the Proxy Setting?

Our school is running Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop. We have a server that filters/block websites via proxy. We need a way to prevent the student account(The account type is limited) from changing the proxy settings. We have tried to use the "Users and…
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why can't system proxy work while firefox/chrome works well with proxy?

I'm in a lab and have to use proxy for Internet access. I can set proxy on firefor/chrome (8080) and use the proxy to access Internet. But when I set the proxy on system setting of…
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my server unable to reach https port 443 urls behind proxy

I have set up a 12.04 LTS ubuntu headless server 64 bit. This is my network interfaces # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The basic eth0 network interface auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp # static IP iface eth0 inet…
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Force ubuntu to access internet through proxy

I've set up a squid forward proxy to cache all internet requests. I have a public ip and opened port 3128. Now I just need to set my ubuntu server to force all internet connections to pass through this proxy, using the ip address and port number. I…
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ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: Failed to parse: proxy:port

I wanted to install a package using pip3 but that's happened: Ubuntu@User:~$ pip3 install Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: Failed to…
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