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

If your curl is at least version 7.19.4, you could just use the --noproxy flag.

curl --noproxy "*" http://www.stackoverflow.com

From the manual.

Answer 2

This works just fine, set the proxy string to ""

curl -x "" http://www.stackoverflow.com

Answer 3

You should use $no_proxy env variable (lower-case). Please consult https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/proxy_settings for examples.

Also, there was a bug at curl long time ago http://sourceforge.net/p/curl/bugs/185/ , maybe you are using an ancient curl version that includes this bug.

Answer 4

Add your proxy preferences into .curlrc

proxy = 1.2.3.4
noproxy = .dev,localhost,127.0.0.1

This make all dev domains and local machine request ignore the proxy.

Answer 5

In my case (macos, curl 7.54.0), I have below proxy set with ~/.bash_profile

$ env |grep -i proxy |cut -d = -f1|sort
FTP_PROXY
HTTPS_PROXY
HTTP_PROXY
NO_PROXY
PROXY
ftp_proxy
http_proxy
https_proxy
no_proxy

With unknown reason, this version of curl can't work with environment variables NO_PRXY and no_proxy properly, then I unset the proxy environment variables one by one, until to both HTTPS_PROXY and https_proxy.

unset HTTPS_PROXY
unset https_proxy

it starts working and can connect to internal urls

So I would recommend to unset all proxy variables if you have in your environment as temporary solution.

unset http_proxy https_proxy HTTP_PROXY HTTPS_PROXY

Answer 6

Lame answer but: Remember to make sure no proxy is set in a ~/.curlrc file (...).