I work from home and, as such, am sometimes connected via VPN. When I'm connected to my company's VPN, I have to use a proxy for BOINC communications. However, if the VPN connection drops (or I disconnect for some reason), I'd like to be able to turn the proxy setting on or off using a script.

I've figured out how to set the proxy settings using boinccmd --set_proxy_settings. However, that doesn't "enable" the proxy settings (that pseky little check mark in the BOINC Manager GUI).

How can I script that under WinXP and BOINC Manager 5.4.11?

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I work from home and, as such, am sometimes connected via VPN. When I'm connected to my company's VPN, I have to use a proxy for BOINC communications. However, if the VPN connection drops (or I disconnect for some reason), I'd like to be able to turn the proxy setting on or off using a script.

maybe it can be done through setting environment variable http_proxy
you can set it inside the script with set command like this:
set HTTP_PROXY=http://your.proxy.ip:3128/ (or whatever proxy port you use)
then restart boinc client

i didn't manage to set up proxy with --set_proxy_settings
i use env. vars