# Ziti Edge Desktop For Windows Disable PROXY

**URL:** <https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-edge-desktop-for-windows-disable-proxy/6012>\
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**Created:** [August 19, 2026, 9:18am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-edge-desktop-for-windows-disable-proxy/6012 "2026-08-19T09:18:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![cao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@cao](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/cao)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 9:18am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-edge-desktop-for-windows-disable-proxy/6012/1 "2026-08-19T09:18:07Z")

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I'm using Ziti Edge Desktop for Windows 2.9.5, it works well in my sandbox environment.

When I testing ZEDW in a corporate network, it failed to connect to Ziti Controller and Router, after a little bit troubleshooting, this is because ZEDW service read the HTTP\_PROXY from environment, and make the connection via proxy, but proxy reject the connection.

read the source of **ziti-edge-tunnel.c,** it read the env variable, i can't find a way to override this.

> static int init\_proxy\_connector(const char \*url) {  
> if (url == NULL) url = getenv("HTTP\_PROXY");  
> if (url == NULL) url = getenv("http\_proxy");  
> if (url == NULL) {  
> ZITI\_LOG(DEBUG, "proxy\_url not set");  
> return 0;  
> }
> 
> ...

Question:

Is there a way to disable the PROXY without removing system env variable HTTP\_PROXY, because in a corporate environment, many other applications relys on this HTTP\_PROXY variable.  
I can't remove the system environment variable, and i want ZEDW do the directly connection to controller and router without proxy, please advise.

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**Author:** ![cao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@cao](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/cao)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 10:47am UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-edge-desktop-for-windows-disable-proxy/6012/2 "2026-08-20T10:47:32Z")

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Hi experts,

Can anyone provide some suggestions/hints?

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**Author:** ![TheLumberjack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/thelumberjack/32/113_2.png) [@TheLumberjack](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/TheLumberjack)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-edge-desktop-for-windows-disable-proxy/6012/3 "2026-08-24T15:09:35Z")

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Yep. Right now it's only enabled by command line flag or env var. I'll file an issue to expose it to the config file so that it's not exclusively by env var or by command line option. There's no horizon on when that'll be enabled (or if we ever do it) so in the meantime you will need to unset that env var if you don't want it eanbled.

> <https://github.com/openziti/ziti-tunnel-sdk-c/issues/1411>
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> \[User in discourse\](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/ziti-edge-desktop-for-win…dows-disable-proxy/6012/3) is looking to disable/override an env var that sets the \`HTTP\_PROXY\` env var. I'm not sure what the order of precedence should be but if the zet is able to configure \`HTTP\_PROXY\` via config file, perhaps the config could have an \`IGNORE\_HTTP\_PROXY\` sort of setting? 
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> I'm unsure of what the proper behavior should be. I can see env vars taking precedence and I can see config file taking precedence.