Author: segfault Date: To: tails-dev Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix
it?)
Hi,
David A. Wheeler: >
>> On Feb 4, 2023, at 2:18 PM, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@???> wrote:
>>
>> Currently Tails includes and supports wget. I propose *also* adding support for curl.
>
> Replying to myself, I think there's a slightly better way to automatically support curl.
> I previously proposed setting the "ALL_PROXY" environment variable, but the best
> setting for curl using ALL_PROXY uses prefixes that might confuse other tools
> that might *also* read from ALL_PROXY.
>
> So instead I propose this, to make Tails automatically support curl, while not
> interfering with any other program.
You might want to try `torsocks --isolate curl` (I didn't test it but
that's often enough to make any program use Tor).
You can also make Tails install curl automatically via the Additional
Software feature.
