HTTP_PROXY-like variable in nodejs?

[Giovanni Giorgi]

Hi all,
 I am building an intranet app for nodejs.

My app will unable to connect to the Internet directly. I need it because of everyauth.

On python, I can configure http proxy easily: sometimes I only need to define a shell environament variable...

export HTTP_PROXY=http://myproxy:8080/ 

Can I do something like that in nodejs? 

Thank you!

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[mscdex]

On Oct 12, 3:42 am, Giovanni Giorgi <j...@gioorgi.com> wrote:
> Can I do something like that in
> nodejs?  

Not in node core, but you might try this module: https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy

[Isaac Schlueter]

You can also provide a "proxy" argument to Mikeal's request library.

request.get({ url: "http://google.com", proxy: process.env.HTTP_PROXY })

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[Jeroen Janssen]

that is the 'other' side of the proxy (an actual proxy).

http_proxy/https_proxy/ftp_proxy environment variables are typically
used to control a client library to connect through a (corporate)
firewall to connect to servers on the internet.

python has http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html#urllib.urlopen :
"The urlopen() function works transparently with proxies which do not
require authentication. In a Unix or Windows environment, set the
http_proxy, or ftp_proxy environment variables to a URL that
identifies the proxy server before starting the Python interpreter."

so I guess Mikeal's request 'proxy' option is closest to that