From 84219b95abeac4c5a9e4d1a74b0118862a6bb500 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: asdffdsazqqq <90116442+asdffdsazqqq@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:58:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] docs: faq: how to use a proxy server that requires a username
 and password - fixes #6565

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 docs/content/faq.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/content/faq.md b/docs/content/faq.md
index a0a99c930..b42403af5 100644
--- a/docs/content/faq.md
+++ b/docs/content/faq.md
@@ -108,6 +108,14 @@ possibilities.  So, on Linux, you may end up with code similar to
     export HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy
     export HTTPS_PROXY=$http_proxy
 
+
+Note: If the proxy server requires a username and password, then use
+
+    export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:12345
+    export https_proxy=$http_proxy
+    export HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy
+    export HTTPS_PROXY=$http_proxy
+
 The `NO_PROXY` allows you to disable the proxy for specific hosts.
 Hosts must be comma separated, and can contain domains or parts.
 For instance "foo.com" also matches "bar.foo.com".