How do I use cygwin behind the corporate firewall

Question

I\'m in a Microsoft IE environment, but I want to use cygwin for a number of quick scripting tasks.

How would I configure it to use my windows proxy information? Ru

Answer 1

Most applications check one of the following environment variables (gem even checks both), so try putting this code in your .bashrc:

proxy=http://host.com:port/
export http_proxy=$proxy
export HTTP_PROXY=$proxy