Support for http(s)_proxy

[ChrisWeiss]

it doesn't appear that dredd leverages http_proxy or https_proxy when doing it's web calls to the API endpoint.

[zdne]

@ChrisWeiss

Can you be please more specific? How would you expect this to work?

[ChrisWeiss]

If the environment variables http_proxy and/or https_proxy are set, they should be leveraged in the call. I think this StackOverflow answer has a somewhat correct implementation (to be platform agnostic, it'd need to function if those variables are not set). (disclaimer, I'm completely new to node/coffeescript) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3862813/how-can-i-use-an-http-proxy-with-node-js-http-client

[imp-partner-test]

I also ran into this. How do I tell dredd to use a http proxy?

[ecordell]

The nodejs people think it's not worth implementing in the http/https libraries.

It looks like it might be worthwhile to switch from node's http/https libraries to request, and then add this functionality to request (already being discussed here).

[honzajavorek]

Related: #591

[weejames]

It would be great to see this made available. The lack of this makes Dredd difficult to use behind our company proxy.

[honzajavorek]

This is going to be implemented 🎉 I'd appreciate if all of you commenting here (and adding @alex-glv from #591) could give me some pointers. Do you think this kind of support would be sufficient to fulfill your dreams? 🙂

[honzajavorek]

Support for HTTP(S) proxy has been implemented in Dredd v3.3.0. See documentation on how to use it.