Method: Curl::Easy#proxy_url=

Defined in:
lib/curl/easy.rb

#proxy_url=(url) ⇒ Object

call-seq:

easy.proxy_url = string                          => string

Set the URL of the HTTP proxy to use for subsequent calls to perform. The URL should specify the the host name or dotted IP address. To specify port number in this string, append :[port] to the end of the host name. The proxy string may be prefixed with [protocol]:// since any such prefix will be ignored. The proxy’s port number may optionally be specified with the separate option proxy_port .

When you tell the library to use an HTTP proxy, libcurl will transparently convert operations to HTTP even if you specify an FTP URL etc. This may have an impact on what other features of the library you can use, such as FTP specifics that don’t work unless you tunnel through the HTTP proxy. Such tunneling is activated with proxy_tunnel = true.

libcurl respects the environment variables http_proxy, ftp_proxy, all_proxy etc, if any of those is set. The proxy_url option does however override any possibly set environment variables.

Starting with libcurl 7.14.1, the proxy host string given in environment variables can be specified the exact same way as the proxy can be set with proxy_url, including protocol prefix (http://) and embedded user + password.



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# File 'lib/curl/easy.rb', line 157

def proxy_url=(url)
  set :proxy, url
end