How to set proxy to http request?

[faywong]

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[pinheadmz]

Could you please provide any more details about your issue?
What are you trying to do, and with what application?

[ghost]

There are a lot of reasons people may want to use a proxy. This applies to things not quite on the Internet like Tor and blocked things on the "Internet" like gist in China. Proxy support should be one of the most basic things to expect from a request library.

[pinheadmz]

To be fair, this library is explicitly minimal, designed for use with bcoin and hsd. It is not really intended for general use.

[ghost]

The thing with cryptocurrencies is that it tends to be a target for blocking or otherwise be interesting for being tunneled through. Doing proxies are, pardon me, but not hard:

• socks-proxy-agent on NPM is pretty much what you need for socks. It even supports the socks{,4,4a,5,5h}:// proxy string stuff.
• https://github.com/salesforce/global-tunnel/blob/master/lib/agents.js demonstrates making an agent for HTTP proxy. Basically you glue the proxy server name in front of stuff.

If I would take a guess here I think our fella faywong is trying to grab the airdrop and then hit the Chinese GFW on GitHub. Same, bruv, same.

[pinheadmz]

I see, are you able to git clone? You can download the airdrop data without using the hs-airdrop tool:

handshake-org/hs-airdrop#60 (comment)

[pinheadmz]

Also worth noting that both bcoin and hsd full nodes do have proxy support. In fact we just fixed a bug: bcoin-org/bcoin#871

[faywong]

Could you please provide any more details about your issue?
What are you trying to do, and with what application?

I have used the hs-airdrop tool which a proxy is a must to access/continue in my situation(see my profile).

Also maybe another request library that easy to add a proxy is better for hs-airdrop(issue for the author of hs-airdrop).

Anyway, thanks for clarify.