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Node JS: Making https

request via proxy
Struggled quite a bit before getting this worked. Had a
requirement where I had to make a GET/POST call
from node JS code to external webservice API over
tunnel proxy. Posting multiple solutions that worked
for me:

Using https-proxy-agent module
and request module
Install the following modules:

npm install -g request https-proxy-agent

In case you are connecting to an http:// endpoint, you could install:

npm install -g http-proxy-agent

Then:

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var HttpsProxyAgent = require('https-proxy-agent');

var request = require('request');
var proxy = 'http://127.0.0.1:3128';
var agent = new HttpsProxyAgent(proxy);
request({
uri: "https://example.com/api",
method: "POST",
headers: {
'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
},
agent: agent,
timeout: 10000,
followRedirect: true,
maxRedirects: 10,
body: "name=john"
}, function(error, response, body) {
console.log("Error" + error);
console.log("Response: " + response);
console.log("Body: " + body);
});

Using https-proxy-agent module
and https module

var https = require('https');

var HttpsProxyAgent = require('https-proxy-agent');
var proxy = 'http://127.0.0.1:3128';
var agent = new HttpsProxyAgent(proxy);
var post_req = https.request({
host: 'example.com',
port: '443',
path: '/api',
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

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},
agent: agent,
timeout: 10000,
followRedirect: true,
maxRedirects: 10
}, function(res) {
res.setEncoding('utf8');
res.on('data', function(chunk) {
console.log('Response: ' + chunk);
});
});
post_req.write("name=john");
post_req.end();

References:
https://nodejs.org/api/https.html

http://blog.vanamco.com/proxy-requests-in-node-js/ (Custom
implementation of HttpsProxyAgent)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/https-proxy-agent

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Marc Busch • a year ago

Good grief, You're examples were the ONLY ones that worked after research & trial & errors
for several hours - THANKS!
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Ankur Agarwal Mod > Marc Busch • a year ago

Glad it helped! Cheers :-)
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Mike • 4 months ago

I found that your code can't reuse the connection after each HTTPS request. It makes a new
connection every time when I do a HTTPS request. Do you have any way to fix it? Thanks
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niladri roy • 5 months ago

im getting the following error:
UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): Error:
Error: write EPROTO 101057795:error:1407
70FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown
protocol:openssl\ssl\s23_clnt.c:794:
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Nithin Satheesan • 8 months ago

Thanks alot for the help. I researched a lot. Nothing worked except this one. Keep up the
good work!
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Alone Warrior • 2 years ago

How do i send the username/password for the proxy?
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Ankur Agarwal Mod > Alone Warrior • 2 years ago

In above example, for passing username / password, you can change your proxy url
to something like:

var proxy = 'http://" + username + ":" + password + "@127.0.0.1:3128';

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Onofre Martins • 2 years ago

perfect. i can turn off proxy config when I'm at home, and turn on on my work
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Ankur Agarwal Mod > Onofre Martins • 2 years ago

Glad it helped!
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Rob Caldecott • 3 years ago

Very useful. Interestingly, if the HTTP_PROXY env var is set on Windows, then 'request' will
ignore the https-proxy-agent, which confused me for a while.
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Ankur Agarwal Mod > Rob Caldecott • 3 years ago

Interesting! Need to check on this to see what's happening exactly under the hood.
Thanks for the insight Rob.
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David Kassa • 3 years ago

thanks. This helped.
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