Proxy settings are ignored

[dkasak]

httpie 2.3.0 ignores both the --proxy flag and the HTTP_PROXY variable. The request succeeds but is made directly instead of through the proxy.

Examples:

http --verify=no --proxy=http:http://127.0.0.1:6666 URL foo=bar

HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:6666 http --verify=no URL foo=bar

I also tried passing the arguments without = but the result is the same. The equivalent curl command works and is registered in the proxy:

curl -k --proxy http://127.0.0.1:6666 --data foo=bar URL

Has anyone ever encountered this? Where should I look next? I searched through existing issues but nothing popped up. I also tried running the command with --debug -v and sure enough, there's no mentions of proxies in the output:

>>> requests.request(**{'auth': None,
 'data': '{"foo": "bar"}',
 'headers': {'User-Agent': b'HTTPie/2.3.0', 'Accept': b'application/json, */*;q=0.5', 'Content-Type': b'application/json'},
 'method': 'post',
 'params': <generator object MultiValueOrderedDict.items at 0x7f1ff6d28c80>,
 'url': 'https://...'})

[ederin]

Httpie sends HTTP requests through HTTP proxy and HTTPS requests through HTTPS proxy. This behavior is consistent with behavior of underlying Requests library:

https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/v3.0.0/user/advanced/#proxies

It seems that you are trying to send HTTPS request through HTTP proxy. Have you tried changing scheme to HTTPS?

http --verify=no --proxy=https:http://127.0.0.1:6666 HTTPS-URL foo=bar

[dkasak]

Ah, right, this is it. I've actually been bitten by this aspect of requests before, but I forgot about it. I'm used to HTTP_PROXY vs HTTPS_PROXY controlling which protocol will be spoken to the proxy, instead of saying what kind of requests will be redirected to it.

Thanks for reminding me.