configure proxy in erlang .config file

Question

Usually I do configure the proxy using:

httpc:set_options([{proxy, {{"www-proxy.mycompany.com", 8000},
  ["localhost"]}}]).

Is it possible to achieve the same result using the config file?

Answer 1

Sure you can either use the config file (specified here ) or you can use any .hrl file.

The latter option is the one I use, as you can just

-include("settings.hrl").

in your file. The settings.hrl file might be looking like this

-define(PORT, 8080).
-define(URL, "http://my.url").

And in your code you can then use these defines as follows

httpc:set_options([{proxy, {{?URL, ?PORT}, ["localhost"]}}]).