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Great script, but Please include functionality to remove/delete proxy configuration from /etc/variables file that have been set manually. Also for unseting ftp

MacOS has some different configuration files for environment variables. The script be able to determine the OS and act accordingly.
The details about the files are available here.

When we run proxyman unset, the lines in ~/.gitconfig

[http]
	proxy = https://172.31.2.4:8080/
[https]
	proxy = https://172.31.2.4:8080/

turn into

[http]
[https]

On setting the proxy later on, these lines persist i.e. the gitconfig file becomes

[http]
[https]
[http]
	proxy = http://172.31.2.4:8080/
[https]
	proxy = https://172.31.2.4:8080/

This results in many of these lines over time

proxyman version v3.1.2 on Ubuntu 18.04

Some programs check for the HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and environment variables like this instead of the usual lowercase ones. One example I could give right now is the Ruby package manager gem (see this stackoverflow answer).

1. all_proxy is needed for some applications
2. socks is also not supported
3. If you can add support for bower if would be nice 😄
4. Doesnt work on arch linux as well

Many times the user has a login shell instead of a normal shell, like MacOS, servers. In that case, the environment variables are available in .bash_profile instead of .bashrc.
A fix is required around this, by checking which of those two files already exist and try to change settings for that only.

Hi,
first of all - nice work - this is THE BEST solution for proxy. Thanks man.

Can you please add support for linux mint driver manager as it doesn't work.
Thanks in advance.

p.s.:
maybe this will be helpfull?

Please consider adding support for pacman(Arch Linux package manager).

Allow option for adding proxy in the .bowerrc file.

{
"proxy":"http://<host>:<port>",
"https-proxy":"http://<host>:<port>"
}

There have been certain issues wrt to shell environment variables.
As of now, bash settings are stored as variables in .bashrc. However, they become pretty useless for other shells like zsh ( #10 ), and login shells.
MacOS uses .bash_profile and not .bashrc ( #7 ).

A solution to this could be saving the variables to a file, say ~/.proxymanrc and have

source ~/.proxymanrc

in .bashrc or .zshrc.

This would require following things to be done:

• Saving intermediate bash_config.tmp to .proxymanrc and modifying source in .bashrc or .zshrc when change is required.

Getting TLS handshake error on sudo apt update. Was not able to add some ppa repositories.
After some searching found out that the extra s in https://

echo "Acquire::Https::Proxy \"https://${stmt}${https_host}:${https_port}\";" \
         >> "$CONF_FILE"

of the apt.sh was creating the problem.

Found the problem via this answer : https://askubuntu.com/questions/1014973/apt-update-could-not-handshake-an-unexpected-tls-packet-was-received/1014978

My OS is Kubuntu 18.04 not sure whether other Linux OS's will face the same problem or not.

In Debian, sudo is not installed by default.
Is it possible to implement a way to use it without sudo?
Maybe checking first and then requiring to be logged in as root?

v3 is ready 🎉

Feel free to try it out and get details about it at https://github.com/himanshub16/ProxyMan/releases

The code is available at branch v3.
The final release will be made during first week of 2019.

With special characters in the password, I can use the encoding (@ = %40), but this doesn't work for all the targets.
The typing should happen in the standard way (typing @) and the scripts should take care of encoding special characters if necessary.

EDIT:
The bug was: I used encoding (%40) but apt gave a proxy authentication error. With non-encoding it works.

The following could be the content of the wiki :

• Educating about what is proxy and how it works
• How is proxy configured on different platforms (GNOME/KDE/OSX/Windows)
• How applications use proxy settings to communicate over network
• How one has to configure proxy if he/she wants to do it manually
• What is the state of some popular applications on proxy settings and how do they handle it

This is a really nice resource: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/proxy_settings

It would be simpler if we could install the tool using apt-get

Currently this is written in .npmrc file:

proxy=http://<host>:<port>/
https-proxy=https://<host>:<port>

But this is the correct thing to do:

proxy=http://<host>:<port>/
https-proxy=http://<host>:<port>

Notice the s missing in https-proxy. :)

Following changes to the codebase would be helpful.

• Replacing colour codes and other formatting codes with string variables.
• Restructuring main.sh to reduce the number of lines in switch-case by coupling operations into functions.

I tried to install the latest version in my Manjaro 18.0.4 XFCE. To install it successfully, I had to add "$HOME/.local/bin" to $PATH. After installation, when I tried to unset the proxy (I use proxy by editing "/etc/environment" file), it showed this error:
bash: environment.sh: No such file or directory
When I checked $HOME/.proxyman/, indeed there was no environment.sh file. How do I resolve this?
I have been using ProxyMan 2.5 for quite some time, never faced this problem there.

EDIT: Adding screenshot of the same

Suggestions and discussions on methodology are welcome.
Requirement: To run a script/test and get to know if the proxy is getting set at required locations or not. Also, the test should tell which locations did it check and which not, so that nothing gets escaped.

Thanks for contributing this utility!

Some questions:

• why is the tool manipulating entries with "github.com" in environment such as sed -i '/github\.com/d' ~/.bashrc ?
• why does the manual instruct to use "bash main.sh" instead of just "main.sh" since there is the associated #/bin/bash bang header ?

And some feedback:

• in my case, I need only http proxy to be set and not ftp or socks proxy. What would be the best way to adapt the tool ?
• I'd feel safer if backups of the edited files would be saved (e.g. -i[SUFFIX] sed option such as -i.old)

Thanks,

Guillaume.

MacOS has it's own network configuration tool, similar to gsettings.
The documentation is available here.

Hi! Thank you for this useful script. Just to ask, wouldn't it be great if I don't have to manually URL encode the alphanumeric signs?? I have @, #, \ and - in my password 😋

More info here ▶️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#Character_data

user@love:~/ProxyMan-master$ sudo ./install
Failed to install :(
You can still use it > ./main.sh set

Worked fine in Fedora though.

Hi everyone,

is there a way to configure ProxyMan with a single command that doesn't need additional information? I'd like it because i need to use something like ProxyMan for a background use.

Thanks

It would be good to have the proxy settings for Yarn too.

We could add support for a config file (maybe in INI format) which would contain the proxy settings, to be used when we set proxy. That way the user wouldn't have to enter the proxy server, port etc again and again.

Hi,

git proxy settings :
http http://proxyurl:8080/
https https://proxyurl:8080/

I need to be set

git proxy settings :
http http://proxyurl:8080/
https http://proxyurl:8080/

Is that for everyone working? Or should be there a if statement like:

   if [ "$USE_HTTP_PROXY_FOR_HTTPS" = "true" ]; then
        git config --global http.proxy "http://${stmt}${http_host}:${http_port}/"
        git config --global https.proxy "http://${stmt}${https_host}:${https_port}/"
    else
        git config --global http.proxy "http://${stmt}${http_host}:${http_port}/"
        git config --global https.proxy "https://${stmt}${https_host}:${https_port}/"
    fi

a great feature required is set the list of "no proxy" host for conextions

The default terminal/bash in MacOS does not support colours, which makes the terminal display the colour codes adjoining the exact statement. This could even happen on old terminal emulators which don't support colour. (not tested yet)
The solution is to have some workaround this, by having a separate script without any such colour codes and executing that if things start to fail.

It would be good to have the proxy settings for Maven too.
Since the proxy settings for Maven are stored in an XML file, it may help using http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/

There has been an issue persisting for long due to setting of proxy in /etc/environment.
This file is read at user login and stays in the display manager's shell. Thus, to reload this file wherever it is being used requires log out and then re-login.
Also, there have been observations on apt overriding /etc/apt/apt.conf for /etc/environment for proxy variables, hence the decision.

Also, there does not seem to be any major impact of dropping default support for `/etc/environment'.
If anyone has any issue with the same, comment below.

Observed on: Ubuntu

As per the convention followed by the other scripts, the git_config.sh should be named git.sh in my opinion.

The GUI has issues with setting proxy settings for places where elevated privileges are required, like /etc/environment, /etc/apt/apt.conf. The current solution for privilege escalation is pkexec, using which is added to the subprocess which executes the respective script with proper arguments. However, it's easy to execute scripts with sudo permission from Terminal, but GUI should give some kind of out of the box experience.

Alternative solutions are welcome.
Any fix will be greatly appreciated.

P.S. Code is available if GUI branch

The major motivation behind creating ProxyMan was handling the cases when applications were not able to function properly, primarily due to

• Not using http_proxy environment variable.
• Not being launched from shell, so variables are set.
• Not using system's proxy settings (depending on OS).

However, as of now, almost all tools like git, npm, yarn (#46 ), bower (#40 ), maven (#47 ), etc. work well with http_proxy, the need to configure them manually becomes insignificant. There's just one kind of use case where you'd require a different proxy for git and http_proxy, which is a very rare use-case.

I would like to have feedback on if there shall be cleanup in ProxyMan to expect applications to pick up http_proxy as most of them do.

https://github.com/himanshub16/ProxyMan/tree/v3#how-this-is-going-to-be-different-from-v2

Hi there,
when I want to disable proxy recently I face this problem :
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
Proxy Disabled
and in fact it is not disabled and my internet does not work .
P.S: I am using Ubuntu
Thanks

This is something to be carefully figured out. The aim is to reset old settings on logout.
It is required when the user is on a public terminal/computer lab, where there are chances to forget removing values, and sometimes passwords.

First of all I want to thank you for making ProxyMan. It would be perfect if ProxyMan could be installed directly from the Arch Linux AUR repository. Thank you.

Adding proxy settings for docker would be very nice :-)

It would be great to run your ProxyMan in non interactive mode.

I symlinked my zshrc from my config folder, and proxyman removed the symlink when I used it

hello sir! first of all my humble thanks to you for creating this wonder full tool for saving my time .but, small error is still arising .when i try to use internet in firefox ,its not working.please see this issue
Thanks in advance

The default .bashrc doesn't have a newline at the end. So, after ProxyMan edits the file, the settings are written adjoining the end of switch case as stated below.

esachttp_proxy='''''....

There are a lot of zsh users, who have their configurations in .zshrc.