sysproxy-cmd

A command line tool to change HTTP(s) proxy settings of the operating system.

Binaries included in repo. Simply make to build it again, with the important exception of darwin, which uses its own repository and build at https://github.com/getlantern/sysproxy-cmd-darwin.

Note - you will need to run make separately on each platform.

Usage

sysproxy show
sysproxy on  <proxy host> <proxy port>
sysproxy off <proxy host> <proxy port>
sysproxy wait-and-cleanup <proxy host> <proxy port>

sysproxy off and sysproxy wait-and-cleanup turns off proxy setting only if the existing host and port equal .

sysproxy wait-and-cleanup differs from sysproxy off in that it waits for input from stdin (or close) before turning off proxy setting. Any signal or Windows system shutdown message triggers the cleanup too.

Notes

• Mac

Setting the system proxy is a privileged action on Mac OS. sudo or elevate it as below.

There's an additional option to chown itself to root:wheel and add setuid bit.

sysproxy setuid

• Windows

Install MinGW-W64 to build sysproxy as it has up to date SDK headers we require. The make command is mingw32-make.

To avoid bringing up console window, it doesn't show anything directly to console. Piping the result to other utilities should work.

sysproxy show | cat

• Linux

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev