What's the proxy URL format to be passed to --proxy option?

[Kevin Cernekee]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Murilo Opsfelder Araújo
<mopsfelder at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do I authenticate at the proxy server?  Is it possible?

AFAICT this will require code changes in http.c and ssl.c.

As a quick-and-dirty workaround can you use "ssh -D 1080" to set up a
local unauthenticated SOCKS proxy, and connect to the VPN with
"--proxy socks://localhost:1080"?