title: How do I use cygwin behind the corporate firewall
body: <p>I'm in a Microsoft IE environment, but I want to use cygwin for a number of quick scripting tasks.</p>
  
  <p>How would I configure it to use my windows proxy information?  Ruby gems, ping, etc are all trying to make direct connections.  How can I get them to respect the proxy information that IE and firefox use?</p>