Testing "Proxy" experimental feature.

[Demitrius Nelon (denelon)]

Please try the new experimental "Proxy" feature in WinGet 1.8 preview.

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[soredake]

Can confirm that http proxy is working, would be nice to have support for socks5 proxies.

[Demitrius Nelon (denelon)]

soredake, feel free to create a new issue requesting support for socks5 proxies. It will largely depend on whether lots of folks request it or if someone from the community is willing to tackle it.

Thanks for the confirmation!!!

[pedoc (pedoc)]

Yes, it can be confirmed that http/s proxy works fine with --proxy option.

Support for socks4/5 is of course better 😊

[Yue JIN (kingyue737)]

How to use this feature？Add "experimentalFeatures": {"proxy": true} in settings and set $Env:http_proxy?

[soredake]

--proxy "http://127.0.0.1:8118" is one way to use proxy.

[5night]

first,
winget settings --enable ProxyCommandLineOptions

then
winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell --source winget --proxy http://127.0.0.1:7890

[BenYip (bennyyip)]

How can I persist this option in a config file, instead of typing --proxy http://127.0.0.1:7890 every time?

[Flor Chacón (florelis)]

It can be persisted with the settings command:

> winget settings set DefaultProxy https://127.0.0.1:2345
> winget settings reset DefaultProxy

Note that this requires running as admin.

[Matthew A R Sherian (msherian)]

Unfortunately the only mechanism supported in my environment is a PAC file, and the current proxy implementation doesn't handle those.

[soredake]

You can open new feature request for this, as I did for SOCKS proxy support #4465

[Jaco (aith85)]

What about proxy with user/pass authentication?

[Ambrus Tóth (tothambrus11)]

This was my process:

• Download a recent version of winget from https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases (the msixbundle file)
• If needed, restart your machine so that the next step doesn't complain
• In admin powershell, run this: Add-AppxPackage -Path "URL_TO_THE_MSIXBUNDLE_FILE"
• Now you should have a recent winget version: winget --version -> v1.11.430
• Configure the proxy in an admin powershell:
  • winget settings --enable ProxyCommandLineOption
  • winget settings set DefaultProxy http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@proxy.mycompany.com:8080
• Restart the terminal, then you should be good to go :D

[xiaoxiyao (xiaoxiyao)]

Can a configuration item be provided in the settings?

[Demitrius Nelon (denelon)]

Admin settings can specify a default proxy. There is an example in the specification.