Setting up proxy for the iOS Simulator

Often in an Enterprise environment the internet is shielded of from the office network. In other words, you will not able to be access certain URL’s whilst you’re on your office network.

In our case, our app was trying to parse an RSS feed from an URL that is only accessible through our company’s proxy server (http://proxy-access.company.com:8080).

I knew how to make use of a proxy server in the terminal (setting the http_proxy and https_proxy ENV variables), I also knew how to set it in my system: