igilham / goproxy

Shell tool for toggling company proxy settings

Go Proxy setup tool

This is a simple tool for toggling company proxy settings on and off in the shell environment on MacOS.

I previously made a version of this tool in python.

Use with eval in the shell to make changes to your configuration, e.g. eval $(goproxy on).

Supported commands

• on: turn on proxy environment settings
• off: turn off proxy environment settings
• status: print the current network location (proxies request to networksetup)
• reset: reconfigure current proxy environment settings without changing location

Configuration

Edit myvars.go to ensure the correct hosts, port and network locations are set before building the binary.

Usage in a shell

I have the following in my ~/.profile file. I run the reset command after setting up my variables etc. so that every new shell session loads with the correct environment by the time it shows an interactive prompt.

alias proxy="~/bin/goproxy"

proxy_on() {
  eval "$(proxy on)"
}
proxy_off() {
  eval "$(proxy off)"
}
proxy_reset() {
  eval "$(proxy reset)"
}
# various setup actions...

proxy_reset