3 Feb
2010
3 Feb
'10
10:03 a.m.
Taking another look at this. It doesn't really work the way I had hoped. I can set the $http_proxy variable when connecting to the VPN but the variable is only valid from the bash shell it was called from. Is there no way to make existing processes acknowledge the variable?
no, environment variables are only inherited from the parent process
The main idea behind this is so that I can leave my browser running whether I'm connected to the VPN or not. Currently I have firefox with setup to connect to the proxy and I use another browser whenever I'm not connected (rather than changing the firefox network settings everytime).
Install the foxy-proxy extension for Firefox, it'll allow you to quickly change the proxy -- damjan