An Ode to the Occasional Proxy: Dynamic HTTP Forward Proxy Configuration in Windows, WSL/Ubuntu, and Docker
You may find yourself… supporting developers working behind a non-transparent forward proxy which is implemented in some environments and not others.
And you may ask yourself, “How do I work this?” - with a nod to the Talking Heads, whose “Once in a Lifetime” seems strangely appropriate when dealing with proxy configurations which work sometimes but not others.
In Windows, a host of CLI tools commonly used in development don’t inherit Windows proxy settings.