Turning off the Automatic Proxy Configuration setting.

[jszaszvari]

I can find a way to turn on and off every proxy setting except for the Auto Proxy Config URL.

I want to turn this setting off (Using a manual PAC file) and set it to Auto Discovery.

Turning the Auto Discovery setting on is not a issue, its quite easy. But i cant find a way to turn off the URL setting, Just modify the exisiting URL thats set.

Has anyone done this before?

Thanks

[bentoms]

This is what I use http://macmule.com/2011/09/09/how-to-change-the-automatic-proxy-configuration-url-in-system-preferen...

I checks to see what the value of the URL is, & if it's not what is set @ $4 it changes it to the value of $4.

[Paolo]

Here you go brother.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/networksetup.8.html

these are AAAAALL helpful.

cheers

[jszaszvari]

My issue with network setup is there is no way to turn it off

-setautoproxyurl networkservice url Set proxy auto-config to url for <networkservice> and enable it.

-getautoproxyurl networkservice Displays proxy auto-config (url, enabled) info for <networkservice>.

If you set the URL as blank it still leaves the box ticked under proxy settings.

Other settings can be turned on or off like

-setproxyautodiscovery networkservice on | off

but not this one

[Josh_S]

Usage: networksetup -setautoproxystate <networkservice> <on off>
    Set proxy auto-config to either <on> or <off>.

One difference. Unchecking the box via the GUI also clears the proxy URL. Turning it off using networksetup will leave the existing proxy URL alone.

[jszaszvari]

But you cant turn the URL setting off with networksetup, Only configure the URL.

That setting i posted above is for auto detect without the URL.

There does not appear to be a way to turn the tick box off at all for proxy URL config.

[Josh_S]

I use this all the time. Un-ticks the box

networksetup -setautoproxystate <networkservice> off

Note: If you have System Preferences open, you will have to close and reopen to update the state. And yes, this is the setting for a proxy.pac URL config.

[jszaszvari]

My apologies, you are correct.

This works great on 10.7 and 10.8

Do you know if there is a way to do it on 10.6 clients? That flag does not seem to exist on 10.6 networksetup

Thanks for your help

[Josh_S]

I'm sorry, I don't. It's been a while since I've managed any 10.6.x machines.

[jszaszvari]

|It's been a while since I've managed any 10.6.x machines.

You are a lucky soul... :)

[bradtchapman]

Bump - I had to use this to get a Mac to finish applying Security Update 2019-003 for 10.13.6 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar / Touch ID (T1 chip). The EmbeddedOSInstallerService was crashing because it failed to make a connection to Apple, even though the Mac was connected to a plain network like my cellular hotspot.

We use auto proxy at work. Only after turning it off on this machine did the update finally verify correctly.

I had to open Terminal using Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-T and run the above commands, and then the update verified successfully.

Thanks for the proxy settings @Josh_S . Apple removed them from the networksetup command reference and its man page a while ago.