Support for environment driven enabling of HTTP(S) proxies would be
great. I'd propose that they be separate parameters similar to Java.
Something along the lines of:

HTTP_PROXY_HOST
HTTP_PROXY_PORT (default 80)
HTTPS_PROXY_HOST
HTTPS_PROXT_PORT (default 443)

-- Daniel R. <[email protected]> [http://danielr.neophi.com/]


On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Håvard Stranden
<[email protected]> wrote:
> OpenID for Node.js (node-openid, http://github.com/havard/node-openid) and
> node-oauth (and possibly others) have received a suggestion and pull request
> to support proxying outbound HTTP(S) traffic through honoring a HTTP_PROXY
> environment variable (see https://github.com/havard/node-openid/issues/83
> for more details).
>
> The other obvious option would be to allow passing of proxy settings in some
> form to functions that do requests. This requires changing the libraries'
> APIs.
>
> Are there any established conventions for proxying outbound HTTP(S) traffic
> from a Node.js library?
>
> If not, please share your thoughts on which of the above approaches you
> prefer, as well as suggestions for other approaches.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Håvard Stranden
>
>
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