Jon Harper created HTTPCLIENT-2381:
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Summary: Allow environment proxy settings by default or strongly
document this decision
Key: HTTPCLIENT-2381
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-2381
Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
Issue Type: Wish
Reporter: Jon Harper
Hi,
projects keep getting burned by the fact that is it impossible to set runtime
environment variables to use http proxies. My personal latest frustration is
with central-publishing-maven-plugin which is unusable in many companies where
using a corporate proxy is mandatory (no direct internet access). This has
happened times and times again, for example.
https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-vault/issues/75
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/35815
It seems like every time this happen, people then just add the required code to
be able to set an environment variable or a system property, after the initial
pain of beeing blocked by this problem.
Should this project be changed so that by default without code you can use
system properties to configure the proxy ? That is have systemProperties=true
everywhere and replace useSystemProperties() by disableSystemProperties().
Using the same system properties as the jdk clients is the simplest, but if
needed it would still provide benefit if it were entirely new system properties
(so no backwards compatibilty as these properties would never have been set),
at least people would be to use proxies without changing some code or worse
changing some third party library.
An alternative would be to add a prominent note in the docs to warn that unless
specific code is added, using a proxy is impossible and makes the client
unusable in many corporate contexts. Maybe also document why this design
decision was made, what are the advantages of doing this so that users at least
understand what they gain in exchange for their suffering.
Thanks in advance,
Jon
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