What Is the All_Proxy Environment Variable Used for?
When I Type Set | Grep -I Proxy I See All Environmental Variables Which Refers to Proxy Settings. I Understand the Meaning of Http_Proxy and Ftp_Proxy but What...
When I type
set | grep -i proxy
I see all environmental variables which refers to proxy settings. I understand the meaning of http_proxy and ftp_proxy but what is all_proxy used for and where can I change it ?
It has been added to my environment variables when I used gnome-network-properties application. Why socks is specified there as a protocol?
all_proxy=socks://my_proxy:port/
1 Answer
I found a post in a mailing list which says:
We already export http,ftp,https proxy environment variables. Some environments, GNOME for instance, place the socks proxy in ALL_PROXY and all_proxy. Export it as well.
Here is the post
So it's for the SOCKS proxy in gnome.
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