Setting proxy for network traffic

[btoews]

I'm trying to proxy the traffic from atom and it doesn't seem to respect the system proxy or the HTTP_PROXY environment variable. Anyone know how I can set this?

[zcbenz]

Did you use node's net/http module to access network, or browser things like $.ajax? If it was the former then you need to manually set the proxy via modules like request, node's modules use a completely different network stack with Chromium, and it doesn't respect system proxy.

[btoews]

I kind of got this working by setting the http_proxy environment variable (lower case), but then I got a bunch of node exceptions coming out of the request library. I worked around these by modifying some of the source for that library. Regardless, I think I've figured out a reliable way to proxy stuff, so I'll close this.

[alvinteh]

@mastahyeti Do you mind sharing how you figured to proxy requests - both those initiated from the Chromium stack and those from the node stack? I've tried setting the http_proxy environment variable and proxy_server Chromium switch to no avail.

[btoews]

I haven't tried this in a while, but the http_proxy variable doesn't seem to work anymore.

[alvinteh]

@mastahyeti How about the proxy_server Chromium switch or the modifications you made?

Basically, I'm exploring migrating some of my company's desktop apps from .NET to node, and the main stumbling block is proxies. I can get around that for node modules by prompting users for the proxy details and using them in the request module, but that leaves the Chromium side of things unresolved.