feat: auto setup proxy for http requests

[Djaler]

Resolves #67

[Djaler]

I don't want to annoy, but I really need this feature, because for now we can't use corepack on work computers

[arcanis]

Hey @Djaler, apologies for the delay, I should have given feedback sooner 🙁

While global-agent does work, I'd tend to prefer to avoid global mutation of the environment (at the moment we use spawn to spawn the underlying package managers, but it could be conceivable to use require instead to avoid part of the boot overhead). Would there be any chance we could do this by having a custom agent (created and local to httpUtils) that we could manually pass to https.get?

[Djaler]

@arcanis sorry for a big delay too.

Looks like I found a good way to do this without global mutations, yeah

[Djaler]

About type error - I don't know why it fails. proxy-agent provides typings https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-proxy-agent/blob/master/index.d.ts

[julioz]

I'm sorry to be "that person" but like @Djaler, the lack of support for https proxying is what prevents us from using Corepack as well. @arcanis @Djaler is there something I can do to help move this PR forward?

[Djaler]

@julioz you can manually test it, so I can be more sure that everything is working well

[Djaler]

Hey, @arcanis so what about it?

[jeremy-london]

Looking forward to this feature as well - currently blocking some yarn v1 to yarn v3 migrations we are doing.. can't install yarn behind our proxy

Happy to be a tester if needed!

[arcanis]

LGTM, thanks @Djaler !

[Djaler]

@arcanis any chance to release this feature soon?