http proxy issue

[wundram]

I didn't see this in the interface, but is there a way to set this up to have this open connections through an http proxy server?

[ghost]

It uses the default WinHTTP proxy setting. Please refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc731131(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_5 for more information.

[wundram]

That doesn't seem to be working for us, and we will probably need the ability to set the proxy programatically. Would it be possible to pass our own http_client_config instance in to be used when creating the underlying http_clients?

[ghost]

Thank you for your feedback. We will file a feature request.

However, I would like to understand why it doesn't work for you. When you run "netsh winhttp show proxy" on an administrator command prompt, does it show you the correct settings?

[wundram]

It does show the right settings, but for some reason the C++ REST SDK doesn't work with them if we use the default settings, we have to retrieve them with the WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser API to get the proxy settings and fill out a http_client_config object. I think this is a known issue with the REST SDK.

Also, we have a requirement for the application we are using this for that we be able to set the proxy settings for the application in a config file (if they are not set, we use the proxy settings from IE).

[ghost]

We already filed a feature request, so we will definitely consider that.

For the default proxy issue, please note that WinHTTP does not inherit proxy settings from the browser by default. That is why I pointed you to the netsh documentation to set its proxy. You can also try importing IE settings to WinHTTP by using http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731131(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_2

[karataliu]

We also face the same issue on Linux, looks like we're not able to pass proxy setting for non-win environment now.
Would you consider supporting reading proxy setting from environment variables?

[hanzhumsft]

Hi, the latest release v2.3.0 has addressed this issue. Please try it.