How do I set a system wide proxy with a username and password?
Solution 1:
Try escaping the backslash like this:
http://user%5Cname:[email protected]:8080/
where '%5C' is the URL-encoded value for the backslash character. See this background.
Solution 2:
Historically, you could set up a proxy using environment variables like
http_proxy=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@PROXYIP:PROXYPORT
So it might be possible to specify the username and password in the host field of the Network section like above, i.e.
myuser:[email protected]