How do I make curl ignore the proxy?

Question

How do I make curl ignore the proxy? Setting $NO_PROXY doesn\'t seem to work for me.

Answer 1

First, I listed the current proxy setting with

env | sort | less

(should be something like http_proxy=http://wpad.local.machine.location:port number)

Then I tried setting

export http_proxy=";" 

which gave this error message:

curl: (5) Couldn't resolve proxy ';'

Tried

export http_proxy="" && curl http://servername:portnumber/destinationpath/ -d 55

and it worked!

PS! Remember to set http-proxy back to its original settings with

export http_proxy=http://wpad.local.machine.location:port number