how to you toggle on and off a web proxy in os x from the command line

Question

In OS X, you turn on and off a web proxy from System Preferences > Network > Proxies, by checking Web Proxy (HTTP) and designating the Web Proxy Server etc. and by clicking OK a

Answer 1

I prepared a script named proxy that might help,

#!/bin/bash
#
#
#   Author: Md. Sazzad Hissain Khan
#   Date:   8 July, 2017
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NETWORK_SERVICE_NAME="Ethernet"

if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
    echo "Argument missing [on/off]"
    exit 0
fi

if [ $1 == "on" ]; then
    echo "Enabling secure proxy for $NETWORK_SERVICE_NAME"
    networksetup -setsecurewebproxystate "$NETWORK_SERVICE_NAME" on
elif [ $1 == "off" ]; then
    echo "Disabling secure proxy for $NETWORK_SERVICE_NAME"
    networksetup -setsecurewebproxystate "$NETWORK_SERVICE_NAME" off
else
    echo "Argument invalid [permitted:on/off]"
fi

NETWORK_SERVICE_NAME is the name of your active network which you need to configure.

1. Create proxy file in /usr/local/bin.
2. Copy above script into proxy.
3. Set executable permission for the file using sudo chmod 777 proxy .

How to use:

proxy on
proxy off