How do I use cygwin behind the corporate firewall

Question

I'm in a Microsoft IE environment, but I want to use cygwin for a number of quick scripting tasks.

How would I configure it to use my windows proxy information? Ruby gems, ping, etc are all trying to make direct connections. How can I get them to respect the proxy information that IE and firefox use?

Answer 1

Just for the records if you need to authenticate to the Proxy use:

export http_proxy=http://username:password@host:port/ 

Taken from: http://samueldotj.blogspot.com/2008/06/configuring-cygwin-to-use-proxy-server.html