How can i setup Drush to use a proxy server to access internet on Windows7?

Question

i am using WAMP for Drupal development. I have installed drush and it works fine when using home network without any proxy. When i am at work, the network setting uses a proxy to access internet and hence any drush command which need internet, eg. drush dl {module_name}, doesn't work.

After googling i could only find texts that told me how to configure them on *nix based OS. I'm stuck with windows7. Any idea?

Answer 1

Okay. I got it running. I had to do the following change to make drush dl work on windows 7. Apparently "which wget" wasnt returning anything as windows doesn't have a 'which' command. I hacked the drush core to do the following changes.

1. Go to file drush.inc in folder C:\ProgramData\Drush\includes
2. Change the line $use_wget = drush_shell_exec('which wget'); with $use_wget = drush_shell_exec('where wget');

Root Cause:Windows doesn’t have 'which' command, 'where' command serves the purpose

I think there was no issue with proxy at all and it was using proxy from drupal's settings.php file correctly