Can't configure rclone proxy issue?

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Hey!

I get the following error while auto-configuring: ‘2018/11/21 12:35:56 Failed to configure token: failed to get token: Post https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token: proxyconnect tcp: EOF’

I suspect it’s a proxy issue, given that I am going through one, and I suspect it is a trivial question so sorry for that.

Thanks in advance!

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How did you set it up to use the proxy?

Like this?

https://rclone.org/faq/#can-i-use-rclone-with-an-http-proxy

3

My http_proxy and https_proxy is set for a local proxy server. What should I change? I tried adding address for the token to no_proxy.

4

What specifically are you typing to set the proxy?

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Added 127.0.0.1:53682/ to no_proxy

I did not change the http_proxy or https_proxy, because they are set to be used with the local server.

Sorry for nub-like questions once again…

6

Are you trying to use a proxy or not use a proxy?

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Hey, I already have my https, hhtp, and no-proxy variables set up for other programs to use the proxy server. It’s like it says in the FAQ.

How do I configure rclone in a way that it uses my proxy settings?

Otherwise, what else could cause the token error message I mentioned?

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What are you specifically typing to set the proxy?

The error message is the proxy connection failed so whatever proxy you have set isn’t correct.

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Thank you, I’ll check it tomorrow.
I suspect the issue is that I have it set to http_proxy=‘proxy…:port’ and not http_proxy=‘http://proxy…:port’, but it worked like this for me in the past.

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The correct syntax is protocol://hostname:port - eg http://proxyserver:12345. This is because there are also socks5 proxy servers.

However not that you might also need to set https_proxy to the same value. http_proxy is used for http:// traffic and https_proxy is for https:// traffic.

So typically

export http_proxy=http://proxyserver:port
export https_proxy=$http_proxy

will set both. But annoyingly, some programs need HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY so I end up also doing

export HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy
export HTTPS_PROXY=$http_proxy

Just to catch all variations!

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I had it set on this syntax before, but I only now realized that for some reason HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY do not live through restart.

Setting them made the difference, thanks!

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Would you like to update the faq entry with that - very helpful thank you :slight_smile:

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See https://github.com/ncw/rclone/pull/2768

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Thank you very much :smile:

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Is there a way to get rclone to work with Digest and/or NTLM proxy authentication. Right now it appears rclone assumes proxy authentication is always Basic (set with username:password included) in HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables. Thanks.

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rclone only supports BASIC auth at the moment. Can you make a new topic if you have any more questions?