On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Kuzilla, Daniel J. wrote:

> In summary: I'm attempting to run an application, that will pass user
> specified parameters through Perl, which will invoke cURL, which will then
> make a connection to the outside world.
>
> When cURL is invoked, I need to pass our proxy server information along with
> it to get through to the outside.
>
> That's seems simple enough to do from the command line with the '--proxy"
> option, but I can't do that when Perl invokes cURL behind the scenes.

Well, perl code is plain text files so adding a "--proxy" in a suitable place
isn't always very hard...

Are you sure it uses the curl tool and not libcurl via a perl binding or
similar?

> Is there a cURL config file that I can create somewhere that can pass
> that type of information along when cURL is called in the background?

Yes, $HOME/.curlrc is used by default (but can be disabled with options).

> The software vendor I'm working with mentioned a .curlrc file, but didn't
> have any details.

Try "curl --manual" and search for "curlrc".

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