Firebase CLI deploy doesn't work behind a proxy (regression)

The firebase deploy hosting was working perfectly before. But now it produces the error:

My firebase --version is 8.19.0

i  deploying hosting
i  hosting[my-main-website]: beginning deploy...
i  hosting[my-main-website]: found 1462 files in public
⠋  hosting: adding files to version [0/1462] (0%)(node:4195) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: FirebaseError: Failed to make request to https://firebase-public.firebaseio.com/cli.json
    at Client.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/apiv2.js:177:23)
    at Generator.throw (<anonymous>)
    at rejected (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/apiv2.js:6:65)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:94:5)
(node:4195) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:4195) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
⠴  hosting: adding files to version [0/1462] (0%)
Error: Task index 0 failed: retries exhausted after 4 attempts
(node:4195) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: FirebaseError: Task index 0 failed: retries exhausted after 4 attempts
    at Queue.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/throttler/throttler.js:191:27)
    at Generator.throw (<anonymous>)
    at rejected (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/throttler/throttler.js:6:65)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:94:5)
(node:4195) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 2)

[mbleigh]

TL;DR: Downgrade to 8.15.0 as a workaround for the time being

Hi folks,

I think there is indeed a regression here. We have been migrating to a new HTTP library for core CLI functionality, and it looks like it might not support the HTTP_PROXY environment variable by default. Since it’s around the holidays we are currently reducing our release schedule and might not be able to get this fixed until early January. However, you should be able to downgrade your CLI to v8.15.0 to get around the issue until then.

npm i -g firebase-tool@8.15.0

Sorry for the inconvenience, and happy holidays! ❄️

[hanguokai]

I also encountered hosting deployment issue. In my test, I go back to the v8.16.2 version and there is no problem, but from v8.17.0 version, it has this issue. This issue may be related to network proxy.

Below is error details:

hosting: adding files to version [0/52] (0%)(node:50485) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: FirebaseError: Failed to make request to https://firebase-public.firebaseio.com/cli.json
    at Client.<anonymous> (/Users/xxx/.cache/firebase/tools/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/apiv2.js:174:23)
    at Generator.throw (<anonymous>)
    at rejected (/Users/xxx/.cache/firebase/tools/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/apiv2.js:6:65)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)
(node:50485) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:50485) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
⠹  hosting: adding files to version [0/52] (0%)
Error: Task index 0 failed: retries exhausted after 4 attempts
(node:50485) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: FirebaseError: Task index 0 failed: retries exhausted after 4 attempts
    at Queue.<anonymous> (/Users/xxx/.cache/firebase/tools/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/throttler/throttler.js:191:27)
    at Generator.throw (<anonymous>)
    at rejected (/Users/xxx/.cache/firebase/tools/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/throttler/throttler.js:6:65)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)
(node:50485) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 2)