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Jofsey

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Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 15

Why sudo curl ignores proxy settings?

$ echo $http_proxy
http://my.proxy.com

$ curl -v http://files.com/a.txt
* About to connect() to proxy my.proxy.com
# Correct downloading

$ sudo echo $http_proxy
http://my.proxy.com

$sudo curl -v http://files.com/a.txt
# Hanging.

Last command doesn't use proxy. Why?

$su
$curl -v http://files.com/a.txt

Is also working correctly.

Last edited by Jofsey (2012-10-27 10:30:19)

benob

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Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 187

Re: Why sudo curl ignores proxy settings?

Probably because sudo does not pass your environment variables along. Try:

sudo -E