The myriad of ways of setting the Windows proxy
Set proxy environment variable via Powershell, this is a Permanent Variable set in the registry
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("HTTPS_PROXY", "http://someproxy:3128", "Machine")
Query permanent variable.
[environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("HTTPS_PROXY", "Machine")
Clear permanent variable
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("HTTP_PROXY", $null, "Machine")
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("HTTPS_PROXY", $null, "Machine")
Display proxy env variables
Get-ChildItem Env:
Short hand version of above
gci env:
Yet another way to do the same thing…
dir env:
Return all env variables with the “path”
Get-ChildItem Env:*path* | format-list
Print what proxy is being used by winhttp
netsh winhttp show proxy
netsh winhttp set proxy http://someproxy:3128
Resetting winhttp proxy
netsh winhttp reset proxy
Use proxy currently being used by ie
netsh winhttp import proxy source=ie
*winhttp can also retrieve settings from ie.
This should work for cmd sessions.
set http_proxy=http://someproxy:8080/
set https_proxy=https://someproxy:8080/
This should work for Powershell sessions
$env:http_proxy = "http://169.254.123.45:3128"
$env:https_proxy = "http://169.254.123.45:3128"
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