diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 1680c7bb2..95e21813f 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ FROM alpine:3.8
 LABEL maintainer="searx <https://github.com/asciimoo/searx>"
 LABEL description="A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine."
 
-ENV BASE_URL=False IMAGE_PROXY=False
+ENV BASE_URL=False IMAGE_PROXY=False HTTP_PROXY_URL= HTTPS_PROXY_URL=
 EXPOSE 8888
 WORKDIR /usr/local/searx
 CMD ["/sbin/tini","--","/usr/local/searx/run.sh"]
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ RUN adduser -D -h /usr/local/searx -s /bin/sh searx searx \
  && echo 'sed -i "s|base_url : False|base_url : $BASE_URL|g" searx/settings.yml' >> run.sh \
  && echo 'sed -i "s/image_proxy : False/image_proxy : $IMAGE_PROXY/g" searx/settings.yml' >> run.sh \
  && echo 'sed -i "s/ultrasecretkey/`openssl rand -hex 16`/g" searx/settings.yml' >> run.sh \
+ && echo 'if [ -n "$HTTP_PROXY_URL" ] || [ -n "$HTTPS_PROXY_URL" ]; then' >> run.sh \
+ && echo '  sed -i "s~^#    proxies :~    proxies:\\n      http: ${HTTP_PROXY_URL}\\n      https: ${HTTPS_PROXY_URL}\\n~" searx/settings.yml' >> run.sh \
+ && echo 'fi' >> run.sh \
  && echo 'python searx/webapp.py' >> run.sh \
  && chmod +x run.sh