| Long: proxy |
| Short: x |
| Arg: [protocol://]host[:port] |
| Help: Use this proxy |
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| Use the specified proxy. |
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| The proxy string can be specified with a protocol:// prefix to specify |
| alternative proxy protocols. Use socks4://, socks4a://, socks5:// or |
| socks5h:// to request the specific SOCKS version to be used. No protocol |
| specified, http:// and all others will be treated as HTTP proxies. (The |
| protocol support was added in curl 7.21.7) |
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| If the port number is not specified in the proxy string, it is assumed to be |
| 1080. |
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| This option overrides existing environment variables that set the proxy to |
| use. If there's an environment variable setting a proxy, you can set proxy to |
| \&"" to override it. |
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| All operations that are performed over an HTTP proxy will transparently be |
| converted to HTTP. It means that certain protocol specific operations might |
| not be available. This is not the case if you can tunnel through the proxy, as |
| one with the --proxytunnel option. |
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| User and password that might be provided in the proxy string are URL decoded |
| by curl. This allows you to pass in special characters such as @ by using %40 |
| or pass in a colon with %3a. |
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| The proxy host can be specified the exact same way as the proxy environment |
| variables, including the protocol prefix (http://) and the embedded user + |
| password. |
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| If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. |
