Firefox & http_proxy

[cwng]

Hello,

Sorry if this seems a dumb question, but do anyone know how to make firefox or mozilla (and its derivatives) respect the environment setting of "http_proxy"?

I know you can mannually set the proxy in "Edit->Preferences->General->Connections", but I want to do it through environment variables. Reason being this is a laptop, and at home, my ISP recently force everybody to use their proxy for http connections. At work, or other places, proxy is not necessary. I do not want to go change the preferences setting everytime I fire up firefox.

I have already hacked up a script that will automatically set the "http_proxy" environment variable depedning on the DHCP address my laptop is assigned. However, firefox does not seems to respect that.

Any help or insights appreciated.

/rgds
/cwng

[jods]

When you change your environmental setting make another change in the firefox proxy autoconfig script and specify this script in your firefox preferences.
Alternatively,
There is an extension for firefox known as switchproxy which makes changing proxies painless.

Jodhbir
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[cwng]

I see, thank you, jods.

I have did some research on the proxy autoconfig file, and found that in fact, I need not make any dynamic changes to the file at all. I could code the script to specify "PROXY foo.bar.com:8080" when myIPAddress is found to be in the home network, and otherwise returns "DIRECT".

Here is a very simple script I come up with, in case it helps some other people on this forum.