I'm trying to use the module request in my node.js app, and I need to configure proxy settings with authentication.
My settings are something like this:
proxy:{
host:"proxy.foo.com",
port:8080,
user:"proxyuser",
password:"123"
}
How can i set my proxy configuration when i make a request? Could someone give me an example? thanks
Here is an example of how to configure (https://github.com/mikeal/request/issues/894):
//...some stuff to get my proxy config (credentials, host and port)
var proxyUrl = "http://" + user + ":" + password + "@" + host + ":" + port;
var proxiedRequest = request.defaults({'proxy': proxyUrl});
proxiedRequest.get("http://foo.bar", function (err, resp, body) {
...
})
The accepted answer is not wrong, but I wanted to pass along an alternative that satisfied a bit of a different need that I found.
My project in particular has an array of proxies to choose from, not just one. So each time I make a request, it doesn't make much sense to re-set the request.defaults object. Instead, you can just pass it through directly to the request options.
var reqOpts = {
url: reqUrl,
method: "GET",
headers: {"Cache-Control" : "no-cache"},
proxy: reqProxy.getProxy()};
reqProxy.getProxy() returns a string to the equivalent of [protocol]://[username]:[pass]@[address]:[port]
Then make the request
request(reqOpts, function(err, response, body){
//handle your business here
});
Hope this helps someone who is coming along this with the same issue. Cheers.
request.defaults didn't work for me. Instead this solution worked.the proxy paramater takes a string with the url for your proxy server, in my case the proxy server was at http://127.0.0.1:8888
request({
url: 'http://someurl/api',
method: 'POST',
proxy: 'http://127.0.0.1:8888',
headers: {
'Content-Length': '2170',
'Cache-Control': 'max-age=0'
},
body: body
}, function(error, response, body){
if(error) {
console.log(error);
} else {
console.log(response.statusCode, body);
}
res.json({
data: { body: body }
})
});
http: in proxy was the key for me.This code from proxyempire.io did work for me
const http = require('http');
const https = require('https');
const username = 'your-user';
const password = 'your-pass';
const auth = 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(username + ':' + password).toString('base64');
http.request({
host: 'your-proxy', // DNS or IP address of proxy server
port: 8080, // port of proxy server
method: 'CONNECT',
path: 'google.com:443', // some destination, add 443 port for https!
headers: {
'Proxy-Authorization': auth
},
}).on('connect', (res, socket) => {
if (res.statusCode === 200) { // connected to proxy server
const agent = new https.Agent({ socket });
https.get({
host: 'www.google.com',
path: '/',
agent, // cannot use a default agent
}, (res) => {
let chunks = []
res.on('data', chunk => chunks.push(chunk))
res.on('end', () => {
console.log('DONE', Buffer.concat(chunks).toString('utf8'))
})
})
}
}).on('error', (err) => {
console.error('error', err)
}).end();
