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Bug-1636751 proxy.onRequest with proxyAuthorizationHeader HTTPS only #38428

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Expand Up @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Values of this type are objects. They contain the following properties:
- : `number`. Failover timeout in seconds. If the connection fails to connect the proxy server after this number of seconds, the next proxy server in the array returned from the `proxy.onRequest` listener will be used.
- `proxyAuthorizationHeader`

- : `string`. When set, this is passed to the {{httpheader("Proxy-Authorization")}} request header sent to HTTP or HTTPS proxies as part of a [CONNECT](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods/CONNECT) request. Used to authenticate to HTTP and HTTPS proxies that allow non-challenging authentication.
- : `string`. When set, this is passed to the {{httpheader("Proxy-Authorization")}} request header sent to a HTTPS proxy as part of a [CONNECT](/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods/CONNECT) request. Used to authenticate to HTTPS proxies that allow non-challenging authentication. Returns an error if an attempt is made to use a HTTP proxy.

For instance, if you want to send "username" and "password" for "basic" authentication, you can set the `proxyAuthorizationHeader` property to `Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=`

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