## TL;DR

Proxy environment handling was fixed in Earthly 0.7.14. If Earthly hangs about five seconds at startup trying to reach the API while ignoring your proxy variables, upgrade to 0.7.14 or later.

## Steps

1. Earthly - **What went wrong?**
Whenever I run earthly to build a target on my corporate network machine (Linux x86_64), it is spending about 5 seconds trying to ping the API during Init.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Earthly - What went wrong? Use this skill when you run into "Earthly is not respecting proxy variables, causing 5-second delay startup trying to talk to api.earthly.dev".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

Versions mentioned in the source: Earthly 0.7.14. If you are on something much newer or older, the details may have shifted.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

## Sources

- https://github.com/earthly/earthly/issues/3135

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