I am setting up a bamboo system behind a firewall. There is no easy way to set up proxy settings for bamboo itself, other than by editing bamboo.sh, which I have done -SVN and JIRA then go through the wall to the public repostories.

But the proxy settings are not passed down to ant, which we need for Ivy.

1. They are defined in the ANT_OPTS env variable, but this is not passed down, and there is no way to set an env variable with spaces in it in the dialog (try it)

2. you can do -D definitions for Ant, but these are Ant properties, not system properties.

The only way to set up the proxy that worked was to edit ant.sh and patch in the proxy settings there.