Advanced usage ============== Disabling HTTPS --------------- You may pass the `--disable-https` flag to use unencrypted HTTP instead of HTTPS for a given instance. This is inherently insecure and should be used only when connecting to local development instances. ```sh toot login --disable-https --instance localhost:8080 ``` Using proxies ------------- You can configure proxies by setting the `HTTPS_PROXY` or `HTTP_PROXY` environment variables. This will cause all http(s) requests to be proxied through the specified server. For example: ```sh export HTTPS_PROXY="http://1.2.3.4:5678" toot login --instance mastodon.social ``` **NB:** This feature is provided by [requests](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#proxies>) and setting the environment variable will affect other programs using this library. This environment can be set for a single call to toot by prefixing the command with the environment variable: ``` HTTPS_PROXY="http://1.2.3.4:5678" toot login --instance mastodon.social ```