Proxy settings

[Romakita]

Hi @jasongin ,

Actually, I have a problem to add a node.js version. Here my error:

nvs add v7
Failed to download index: https://nodejs.org/dist/index.json
getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN nodejs.org:443

I think the problem is the proxy settings. But I didn't seen a proxy configuration in your documentation.
I already configured the "proxy", "http_proxy" env but I doesn't work.

Have you an idea ?

Thanks for your work ;)
See you

[jasongin]

NVS doesn't currently support proxy settings. I think that would be a good thing to add.

Node packages (including npm) that use the popular request package automatically respect the HTTP_PROXY & HTTPS_PROXY environment variables. But NVS doesn't use request because that package has a lot of dependencies, and NVS should not require an npm install.

I'm adding this to the backlog.

[wangzishi]

The proxy settings are very useful for users in China.

[vickylance]

@jasongin Any updates on adding the proxy settings?
Because most of us a behind a corporate proxy and getting a CR ticket raised to white list a URL is not a feasible solution at all. It has to go through a lot of security violation checks and it takes months before it can be implemented. And most likely it will be rejected. So it would be very helpful if the proxy options are added soon.

[pedroneil]

The nvs solution doesn't seem to use vsts npm auth

A very crude example using a user's current proxy setttings and using the .Net WebClient to download through a proxy

Download the archive using PowerShell WebClient using user's Proxy Credentials

$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient;
$wc.Proxy = [System.Net.WebRequest]::DefaultWebProxy;
$wc.Proxy.Credentials =[System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultNetworkCredentials;
$wc.DownloadFile("$bootstrapNodeUri","$bootstrapNodeArchivePath");

If you use the npm config get http-proxy or get https-proxy, you could build a PScredential and pass this to -ProxyCredential parameter on Invoke-WebRequest

$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString "PlainTextPasswordFromNPMconfig" -AsPlainText -Force
$proxyCreds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("$PlainTextUserNameFromNPMconfig", $secpasswd)

[Fed29]

+1 for proxy setting

[garberfc]

+2 for proxy setting!

[jetjo]

不能使用windows中配置的代理，放弃了。

[vickylance]

@garberfc @yangbing007 did you both check this PR? #157

its already merged