Proxy-auto-discovery for command line applications (pac4cli)

On many corporate networks, applications need proxy-auto-discovery to know whether a certain URL is accessed either directly or through a web proxy. Browsers can typically handle this, but many command line applications (git, npm, apt, curl) rely on environment variable to hard-code a proxy regardless of the destination URL.

This little daemon enables these applications for auto-discovery by:

• setting the http_proxy variable (and friends) to http://localhost:3128
• providing a simple proxy at that port that does proxy-auto-discovery and connects accordingly.

System dependencies:

• systemd
• NetworkManager

In addition, a few Python package dependencies are installed through pip.