.pac files for ubuntu - command line

Question

I'm in an environment that uses complex proxy settings and uses .pac file to describe/resolve them. I want to setup some VM's and docker containers on this environment mainly based on ubuntu. The typical "system --> preferences --> network proxy --> apply system wide" answer doesn't help a lot because I don't have access to the UI. Ideally a solution would apply really system-wide i.e. work with curl, wget, apt-get, pip and maven. Is there such solution?

Answer 1

From command line there is no option for setting "system wide" proxy, you must set variables in several files depeding on application user.

Almost all command line applications

Edit /etc/environment

http_proxy=http://user:password@proxy:port/
https_proxy=http://user:password@proxy:port/    
ftp_proxy=http://user:password@proxy:port/   
no_proxy="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com"
HTTP_PROXY=http://user:password@proxy:port/  
HTTPS_PROXY=http://user:password@proxy:port/  
FTP_PROXY=http://user:password@proxy:port/  
NO_PROXY="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com"

WGET

Edit /etc/wgetrc

http_proxy=http://user:password@proxy:port/    
https_proxy=http://user:password@proxy:port/    
ftp_proxy=http://user:password@proxy:port/   

APT

Edit or create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/95proxy

Acquire::http::proxy "http://user:password@proxy:port/";    
Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://user:password@proxy:port/";   
Acquire::https::proxy "https://user:password@proxy:port/";

CURL

Edit or create in your home ~/.curl.rc

proxy = user:password@proxy:port

PIP

I didn't find a complete solution for PIP, so I'd rather recommend to use pip with command variable --proxy

pip --proxy <proxy> install <module>

MAVEN

I've never used maven although I've found this

Hopes it helps you.