Provide extensions for supporting a custom proxy client

[decyjphr]

Prerequisites:

• Is the functionality available in the GitHub UI? If so, please provide a link to information about the feature. No

• Is the functionality available through the GitHub API? If the functionality is available, please provide links to the
  API documentation (https://developer.github.com/v3/) as well as the Octokit documentation (https://octokit.github.io/). Kind of

• If the functionality is not yet available in the API, it would be helpful if you
  contacted support (https://support.github.com/) or posted in the Community Forum (https://github.community/). Please
  include a link to the forum post if you create one or a copy of the response from support.

New Feature

Octokit client that Probot uses does not support proxy settings. See documentation

App needs to provide extensions for situations where the app will be running in an environment that is behind an outbound proxy

[aimeegee]

Hi @decyjphr, just wonder is there any update on this issue? Or any suggested workaround?

[decyjphr]

Probot can be started programmatically and you can provide custom Octokit options. One of those could be to use a Request that uses a ProxyAgent

You can try something like

run(app, {
  Octokit: {
  request: {
    agent: new ProxyAgent()
  }
},
  log: pino(),
});

Personally, I haven't tried this , but I hope this helps.

[decyjphr]

Taking this up.
Will first add proxy support for lambda since that handler method provide an easy way to modify probot. Then will extend that to the standalone app.