[ubuntu-uk] proxy setup for work

Simon Greenwood sfgreenwood at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 08:48:09 UTC 2011


On 30 June 2011 09:37, Andrés Muñiz Piniella <andresmp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm starting to use ubuntu at work and found this page:
>
> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-configure-ubuntu-desktop-to-use-your-proxy-server.html
>
> It seems a bit dated. Do I still have to set-up proxy settings per
> application?
>
>
Most applications *should* use the system settings. You're basically setting
the environment variable http_proxy in your session, which Firefox
definitely uses.

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