How do I make curl ignore the proxy?

Question

How do I make curl ignore the proxy? Setting $NO_PROXY doesn\'t seem to work for me.

Answer 1

I assume curl is reading the proxy address from the environment variable http_proxy and that the variable should keep its value. Then in a shell like bash, export http_proxy=''; before a command (or in a shell script) would temporarily change its value.

(See curl's manual for all the variables it looks at, under the ENVIRONMENT heading.)