proxy-toggle 1.0.7

Description:

proxytoggle 1.0.7

A command-line tool to run programs seamlessly behind a proxy.

Introduction
Many corporate networks use proxies both for network protection and to cache often-used content. This command-line tool allows you to run programs behind a corporate proxy without the need to constantly set/unset proxy environment variables. It sets the environment variables only when needed and unsets them whenever the program finished its execution. Currently, proxy-toggle only supports Basic Access Authentication as the authentication scheme to the proxy.


Deployment Requirements
In order to use this module you need to have access to a compatible version of the GnuPG executable. On a Linux platform, this will typically be installed via your distribution’s package manager (e.g. apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu). Windows binaries are available here - use one of the gnupg-w32cli-1.4.x.exe installers for the simplest deployment options.


Installation
To use proxy-toggle:
$ pip install proxy-toggle
Head over to pip-installer for instructions on installing pip.
To run from source, you can download the source code for proxy-toggle, and then run:
$ python setup.py install


Usage
Before you can start using proxy-toggle, you must initialize the application:
$ px --init
This will prompt for your proxy settings: proxy server URL and user account/password. A secure keyring (to encrypt the password) will be generated. This might take a while.
You can test your proxy settings with following command:
$ px --test
After successful initialization, run:
$ px <program>
If your proxy doesn’t require user authentication, run it with --nouser option:
$ px --nouser <program>
When you want to renew your proxy password, run it with --renew option:
$ px --renew
You can clear your proxy settings with --clear option:
$ px --clear


Examples
$ px git clone https://github.com/beylsp/proxy-toggle

$ px --nouser wget https://github.com/beylsp/archive/master.zip


Contributing
We love contributions. If you’ve found a bug in the tool or would like new features added, go ahead and open issues or pull requests against this repo. Write a test to show your bug was fixed or the feature works as expected.


1.0.0
Original open source release


1.0.1
Unstable release


1.0.2
First stable release


1.0.3

Add new positional command-line arguments: ‘–version’, ‘–test’
Add full support for python 3.x
Set ‘all_proxy’ environment variable as understood by curl



1.0.4

Add missing dependency (six) to setuptools script
Subprocess inherits parent’s ‘PATH’ environment variable
Add new positional command-line argument: ‘–clear’



1.0.5

Bugfix: no error reported when ‘px –test’ fails



1.0.6

Fix #1: Raise SystemExit with error message when RuntimeError occurs as it doesn’t have errno attribute



1.0.7

Bugfix: fix argument name passed to gnupg constructor