HTTP monitors and HTTP_PROXY on Linux?

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Do synthetic HTTP monitors honor HTTP_PROXY configurations on Linux machines? Is it possible to get around the existing configuration?

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Hi Antonio,

I have not tested out to see if the HTTP monitor will honor HTTP_PROXY configuration by default. Hopefully someone else can answer that part; but I wanted to point you toward these documents that show you how to set proxy configurations on the activegates:

Assuming you test the monitor and it does not use the linux HTTP_PROXY config you will be able to set proxy configuration in the custom.properties file.

Hope this helps.

-Dallas

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Thanks for pointing this out. Looking at it, and given that the default values are unset, I would believe the HTTP_PROXY is really not being used…

I will probably be able to confirm this after a tcpdump test…

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I have done the network traffic capture and can confirm that it is NOT using HTTP_PROXY config in my case.