HTTP proxy authentication

HTTP proxy support was added in #366, but the proxy configuration only takes into account the proxy host and port. We are running in an environment that requires authenticating to the proxy, and as far as I understood, axios doesn’t support that. We are using the standard http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables with the credentials in the URL, like http://proxy-user:proxy-password@proxy-host:proxy-port, and passing that works as expected with e.g. superagent-proxy.

So I’m requesting to have support for HTTP proxy authentication, preferably even taking the credentials automatically from HTTP proxy environment variables.

[ghost]

Thanks a bunch @peruukki !

Weird yeah I’ve just been using request-native-promise instead 🤷‍♂️

I see why one should normally not set env vars after script starts but I wrote a CLI program that optionally let’s the user configure proxy settings for the rest of the lifetime of the script

The root problem here tho was version of library I was using, setting env vars after script starts was just accidental red herring

Thank u!!

[peruukki]

According to the changelog, the fix was included in v0.15.3. Though it still wouldn’t work in our environment and I couldn’t figure out why in a reasonable time, so we kept using superagent instead. 🤷‍♂️

I’ve always seen environment variables being set before/when the application starts, I’m not sure if it’s possible to set them afterwards (and it doesn’t sound like a good idea anyway).