Any interest in setting system (internet explorer style) proxy settings for Windows?

[mynamewastaken]

While vagrant-proxyconf does a great job of setting the various http_proxy environment variables, powershell or other native Windows applications don't use those env variables. I ended up writing a PS script that will set the various registry settings to configure the system proxy. Is there any interest in me opening a PR for this? Script is below, it keys off whatever is set for http_proxy.

# http://b3it.blogspot.com/2015/12/system-wide-proxy-server-settings-for.html

$Proxy = ($env:http_proxy).Replace('http://', '').trimend('/')
$Path64 = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings"
$Path32 = "HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings"
$path   = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings"

Set-ItemProperty -Path $path64 -Name ProxyServer -Value $Proxy
Set-ItemProperty -Path $path64 -Name ProxyEnable -Value 1
Set-ItemProperty -Path $path64 -Name AutoDetect -Value 0
Set-ItemProperty -Path $path64 -Name ProxyOverride -Value ""

Set-ItemProperty -Path $path32 -Name ProxyServer -Value $Proxy
Set-ItemProperty -Path $path32 -Name ProxyEnable -Value 1
Set-ItemProperty -Path $path32 -Name AutoDetect -Value 0
Set-ItemProperty -Path $path32 -Name ProxyOverride -Value ""

Set-ItemProperty -Path $path -name ProxySettingsPerUser -value 0

# set proxy w/o having to open/close IE windows
$ie = new-object -ComObject internetexplorer.application
$ie.Quit()

Assumptions are:

• 64 bit Windows install (I've tested this on 2008R2/2012R2)
• you are somehow setting the http_proxy env
• your http_env looks something like `http://ip:port/' and doesn't embed credentials (may work with it, but haven't tested)
• ???

[tmatilai]

Is there any interest in me opening a PR for this?

Sure! I'm happy to support Windows better, even if I don't plan to test or maintain the functionality myself.

[rlaveycal]

Hi,

I was just going to request this. I'm currently running the following provision script

      config.vm.provision "Set Windows Proxy", type: "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
        netsh winhttp set proxy (get-item env:http_proxy).Value "$((get-item env:no_proxy).Value)"

        write-host Setting Internet Explorer Proxy settings
        reg add "HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Internet Settings" /v ProxyEnable /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
        reg add "HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Internet Settings" /v ProxyServer /t REG_SZ /d (get-item env:http_proxy).Value /f
        reg add "HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Internet Settings" /v ProxyOverride /t REG_SZ /d (get-item env:no_proxy).Value /f
      SHELL

Which sets current user (i.e. vagrant) internet settings. I also set the winhttp proxy. Your code looks better although you should set the override value to $env:no_proxy. I didn't need to strip the http prefix from the proxy url.

[mynamewastaken]

@rlaveycal Nice! I'll have to look into that override value. A little swamped at work at the moment, so will likely take me a bit to get to this.

[mynamewastaken]

Created a PR: https://github.com/tmatilai/vagrant-proxyconf/pull/143