This is supposed to work indeed, even outside of Ubuntu Core. It's also documented:
https://snapdocs.labix.org/configuration-options/87 (this will go into snapcraft.io/docs soon) I'm going to close this issue for now. Please reopen if I'm missing something. ** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released ** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: snappy Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1533899 Title: Add support for proxies Status in cloud-init: New Status in Snap Layer: Fix Released Status in Snapcraft: Invalid Status in Snappy: Fix Released Status in snapweb: Invalid Status in snapd package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in snapd source package in Trusty: Fix Released Bug description: Actually ubuntu-core do not support proxy configuration, that is a problem for example for run correctly "webdm": "Error: Get https://search.apps.ubuntu.com/api/v1/search?........ read: connection refused". I can configure proxy with export http_proxy="http://x.x.x.x.x" but only affects the session not the wide system. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1533899/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

