Proxy servers are commonly used to provide gateways through firewalls
or as caches serving some more-or-less local network. Each protocol
(HTTP, FTP, etc.) can have a different gateway server. Proxying is
conventionally configured commonly amongst different programs through
environment variables of the form protocol_proxy
, where
protocol is one of the supported network protocols (http
,
ftp
etc.). The library recognizes such variables in either
upper or lower case. Their values are of one of the forms:
host:port
The NO_PROXY
environment variable specifies URLs that should be
excluded from proxying (on servers that should be contacted directly).
This should be a comma-separated list of hostnames, domain names, or a
mixture of both. Asterisks can be used as wildcards, but other
clients may not support that. Domain names may be indicated by a
leading dot. For example:
NO_PROXY="*.aventail.com,home.com,.seanet.com"
says to contact all machines in the ‘aventail.com’ and
‘seanet.com’ domains directly, as well as the machine named
‘home.com’. If NO_PROXY
isn’t defined, no_PROXY
and no_proxy
are also tried, in that order.
Proxies may also be specified directly in Lisp.
This variable is an alist of URL schemes and proxy servers that
gateway them. The items are of the form (scheme . host:portnumber)
, says that the URL scheme is
gatewayed through portnumber on the specified host. An
exception is the pseudo scheme "no_proxy"
, which is paired with
a regexp matching host names not to be proxied. This variable is
initialized from the environment as above.
(setq url-proxy-services '(("http" . "proxy.aventail.com:80") ("no_proxy" . "^.*\\(aventail\\|seanet\\)\\.com")))