proxy(8)

proxy8

Libproxy test tool

Usage

proxy [scheme://host] [:port]

Overview

The program proxy displays the proxy server that should be used to reach a given network resource. You can provide a URL as a parameter or start the tool in interactive mode to enter multiple URLs. As a return value the required proxy will be displayed.

libproxy is a library that provides automatic proxy configuration management using different backends.

Examples

# proxy http://www.example.com

# http://127.0.0.1:8080

Debug output

In order to show further debug output you can set the environment variable PX_DEBUG=1

During execution the tool now shows internal library information like existing plugin modules, which configuration is used and the return values.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie).

  1. 13–Arch

Authors

Jan-Michael Brummer <[email protected]>

From libproxy 0.5.12-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.