• 6Configure CLI

Purpose

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This article gives the steps to setup Charles Proxy on Mac OS X Yosemite. It can be used to proxy your CLI traffic to a work proxy server. The main benefit is if you have to pass credentials it can be securely stored in Charles Proxy (One place) and all your CLI commands and Dev tools point to it locally without the need for credentials.

Download and Install

Uncheck Mac OS X Proxy

Since we'll be setting up all the proxy settings in Charles under External Proxy Settings... we'll want to turn this option off.

Setup External Proxy

1. Select menu Proxy | External Proxy Settings...
2. Check the box for Use external proxy servers
3. Check the box for Web Proxy (HTTP)
4. Enter proxy hostname not URL and Port number
5. Enter proxy server username and password if required
6. Check the box for Secure Web Proxy (HTTPS)
7. Enter proxy hostname not URL and Port number
8. Enter proxy server username and password if required
9. Check the box for Always bypass external proxies for localhost
10. Enter exclusions list and Select OK
    1. One IP address or name per line.

Proxy Settings

Set the Charles Proxy 'Proxy Settings'. Basically what port to listen on locally.

1. Select menu Proxy | Proxy Settings
2. Set the port to the default 8888 or pick a custom port.
3. Select the check box for Enable transparent HTTP proxying
4. Select OK

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Configure CLI

Option 1 (Always set)

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There's several ways you can get the Charles Proxy settings into your shell environment variables. Here's one way to allows have the settings in place. Meaning you'll always need to be running Charles Proxy while in the shell if you need network access.

Add environment variables to ~/.bash_profile

Option 2 (Turn settings on and off)

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Another way you can get the Charles Proxy settings into your shell environment variables is to create a function to set and a function to unset. With the following, you can type proxy-on which will set the environment variables and then when done with the need for the proxy settings you can type proxy-off. This may be good for if you are on and off of a proxy network.

Add environment variables to ~/.bash_profile

Configure Test Kitchen

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You must launch Charles Proxy and keep it running pretty much at all times or at least while doing CLI/Dev work that requires network access.

Troubleshooting

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1. If you get an error that you can't save settings to the configuration you may need to change ownership of the application files.
2. If you don't have a license it will shutdown after about 10 minutes. You can relaunch it, apply a license or maybe cron something.

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