Need to set a HTTP proxy within a Debian system ?
Assuming your proxy server is on 192.168.0.1 and listening on port 3128, then the below may help …
( If you need authentication you can use username:password@ like you would in an old style web browser – e.g. http://username:password@192.168.0.1:3128. )
/etc/profile.d/proxy.sh
Add /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh containing
export http_proxy=http://192.168.0.1:3128
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99HttpProxy
Add /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99HttpProxy containing
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://192.168.0.1:3128";
/etc/wgetrc
Edit /etc/wgetrc and add
http_proxy = http://192.168.0.1:3128
(some system commands rely on wget, and may not otherwise use an environment variable, e.g. debootstrap; the http_proxy setting should be present by default but commented out).
(This is all, in a round about way, relayed to the http proxy security vulnerability announced in July 2016 – see httpoxy.org for more info)
Hello David,
thanks for this.
Also something small, a typo at
Acquire::http::Proxy “http://192.168.0.13128”;
shouldn’t be? (semicolon missing?)
Acquire::http::Proxy “http://192.168.0.1:3128”;
Thanks ! typo fixed…. 🙂
Thanks so much for this! Everything is working as expected! Was looking for the locations for jessie, so glad you shared!
hello, I’m started my first debian system, and, when I installed, he said that ” I you want to go outside… u need to setup you debian proxy? Is that right?
Well…
I need to use my username:password@ipv4(conection with internet)
Am I right?
If you need to authenticate, I’d expect it to be something like http://username:password@hostnameOrIpAddress
Dear Debian Experts,
Recently I have added proxy setting as you mentioned in earlier mailto some one. I am facing problem on app installation particularly fsl (or any other apps) which is given below. Same problem happens even after as root.
brain@neurodebian:~$ sudo apt-get install fsl-5.0-complete
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package fsl-5.0-complete
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘fsl-5.0-complete’
Please help me to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance
Ramesh
thanks a lot it was short and useful 🙂
did you run
apt-get updatefirst?Thank you so much. I struggled hard until I found this 🙂
Hi, i’m trying to use wget through a proxy and i’m following all these instructions, but my username has a ‘@’ in between, it’s like: ‘user@domain’. So the configuration line goes like :
http_proxy = http://user@domain:password@server:port.
And it gives me an error on the port number, How can i fix this?
Tried escaping the username @ with a \ ?
( ….ttp://user\@domain:password@server:port … ?)
Yes, i’ve tried escaping the @, but it gives me the error of the port number
You have to replace the @ in username by %40
It also works for special characters in password 🙂
here is a list of character encoding : https://grox.net/utils/encoding.html
Stephane – Thank you 🙂
Many thanks – got this working on a Debian Wheezy VM of Nervepoint Access Manager. All updating well now.
Thanks! It helps a lot! 🙂
Also work for Raspberry3B.
Many thanks
Thanks a lot. Very useful:-)