--- title: 'Proxy Support for Grails' date: 2011-06-28T11:59:43.000Z draft: false taxonomies: tags: [ "jvm"] categories: [ "programming"] --- Not a big thing, actually for me it is. I am always struggling with proxy settings. It requires a lot of different incantations to be done, every program deals with it differently, support for platform settings is flaky, ... Grails deals with this is a way which pleasantly surprised me : > grails add-proxy --host= --port= e.g. grails add-proxy client --host=proxy --port=3128 allows you to create a setting for a proxy and bind it to a name. It also supports username/password. Switching to the setting involves only > grails set-proxy client to enable the proxy setting, and > grails clear-proxy when I get back in a transparent environment. (for completeness there is a **remove-proxy** command which is useful to remove those passwords after the need has passed). I particularly impressed  that this was done in a simple and straightforward without the need fo brain gymnastics trying to remember which arcane curse needs to be put at what location in which file. Nice.