https://github.com/tkluck/pac4cli

Proxy-auto-discovery for command-line applications
https://github.com/tkluck/pac4cli

commandline networking proxy

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Proxy-auto-discovery for command-line applications

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tkluck/pac4cli
• Owner: tkluck
• Created: 2017-05-12T05:48:36.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-08-08T02:32:38.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-01T10:02:25.560Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: commandline, networking, proxy
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 231 KB
• Stars: 25
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 13
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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## Proxy-auto-discovery for command line applications (pac4cli)

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### Introduction

On many corporate networks, applications need

[proxy-auto-discovery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Auto-Discovery_Protocol)

to know whether a certain URL is accessed either directly or through a web

proxy. Browsers can typically handle this, but many command line applications

(git, npm, apt, curl) rely on environment variable to hard-code a proxy

regardless of the destination URL.

This little daemon enables these applications for auto-discovery by:

- setting the `http_proxy` variable (and friends) to http://localhost:3128

- providing a simple proxy at that port that does proxy-auto-discovery and

  connects accordingly.

System dependencies:

- systemd

- NetworkManager

Python library dependencies from PyPI can be installed through:

    sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

### Installation instructions

#### Ubuntu

The latest builds are available through a PPA:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tkluck/pac4cli

    sudo apt update

    sudo apt install pac4cli

You'll need to restart your shell for the new environment variables to take effect.

This will install `pac4cli` for most of your command line tools. However, we

don't ship configuration for Apt. If you want to use `pac4cli` for software

updates, you'll need to run the following:

    sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99pac4cli <