If I am behind a proxy server, how do I set my proxy environment variable to let my text-based HTTP application (i.e. web-browser, wget, curl, etc) pass through the proxy server?

To setup your proxy environment variable, run the following command:

  export  http_proxy=http://proxy_server:port/

Note: You will need to know your http://proxy_server and port values for your proxy environment.

To setup the proxy environment variable as a global variable, add the following information in your