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Anonymous Platypus
Asked: 2015-02-11 05:31:54 +0800 CST

How to set a proxy for terminal?

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I am looking to set a proxy for terminal. What I need is I want to send all terminal communications to the internet through a proxy, say tor.

I tried to set a system wide proxy set up. But Terminal doesn't obey the system wide proxy configuration.

Is there any other way to do this?

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6 Answers

  1. export the below variables in terminal

    export http_proxy='http://proxyServerSddress:proxyPort'    
export https_proxy='https://proxyServerSddress:proxyPort'

    and use the following commands to disable proxy

    unset http_proxy
unset https_proxy
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  2. Best Answer

    Terminal is not net application. Maybe is better to say, in your case, terminal is container for net application like ssh, telnet, lftp, wget, lynx ...

    Edit your:

    sudo -H gedit /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh

    Enter the details in this format.

    export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyhost:port/ 
export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@proxyhost:port/
export telnet_proxy=http://username:password@proxyhost:port/

    This is for when using wget, ftp, lftp, telnet in terminal

    ssh has no native SOCKS client support, you need to use a ProxyCommand for that, for instance with socat:

    ssh -o ProxyCommand='socat - SOCKS4A:myproxy:%h:%p,socksuser=nobody' user@host

    Or use things like tsocks to transparently use SOCKS for TCP traffic.

    For SOCKS5 with socat 2:

    ssh -o ProxyCommand='socat - "SOCKS5:%h:%p|tcp:myproxy:1080"' user@host

    For HTTP Proxy CONNECT method with socat 2:

    ssh -o ProxyCommand='socat - "PROXY:%h:%p|tcp:myproxy:80"' user@host
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  3. In my case I was either missing enclosing inverted comma on both sides. putting "http//.." was wrong and not putting anything such as http//... was wrong too. What worked was ..when I used single inverted commas on both sides.

    export http_proxy='http://username:password@proxyhost:port/' export https_proxy='https://username:password@proxyhost:port/' export ftp_proxy='http://username:password@proxyhost:port/'

    Remember these three are 3 commands to be run separately three times.

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  4. I set export variables

    export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyhost:port/ 
export https_proxy=https://username:password@proxyhost:port/
export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@proxyhost:port/

    in ~/.bashrc and /etc/enviroment

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  5. using torsocks this can be accomplished like so:

    ultralazer@askubuntu:~$ torsocks --shell
New torified shell coming right up...

ultralazer@askubuntu:~$ curl icanhazip.com
185.220.100.242 (tor ip)

    man page:

    ultralazer@askubuntu:~$ torsocks --help
ultralazer@askubuntu:~$ man torsocks
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  6. From my research this was the only thing that worked for me:

    Install ProxyChains:

    sudo apt-get install proxychains

    Edit the conf file to use your proxy:

    sudo vi /etc/proxychains.conf

    Check the last line and edit it. Then just run:

    proxychains ssh/curl/wget

    or whatever command you want to go through the proxy.

    This is someone else answer

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