{"id":3629,"date":"2015-10-12T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ed.gs\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2015-10-12T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T11:04:27","slug":"update-joomla-2-using-proxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ed.gs\/2015\/10\/12\/update-joomla-2-using-proxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Update Joomla 2 Using Proxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joomla 2 and below don&#8217;t support proxies by default, unfortunately you have to hack the code and remove some files for it to work.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly we need to edit the curl transport file and give it the proxy address. 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