Add support for http_proxy environment variables to chef_client and knife

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  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 0.8.10
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Chef Client
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Description

Please add support for http proxy in client code so that clients inside a firewall can contact a chef server outside the firewall.

For example: chef/lib/chef/rest.rb run_request uses Net::HTTP.new. Please add optional --proxy parameter to command line (or, even better, detect http_proxy env variable) and use Net::HTTP.Proxy when appropriate.

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Chris Chalfant added a comment - - edited

Here is a patch for chef 0.8.10 chef/lib/chef/rest.rb

http://gist.github.com/380675

Turns out we need to patch a few more files for knife cookbook upload, too:

chef/lib/chef/streaming_cookbook_uploader.rb
chef/lib/chef/knife/cookbook_upload.rb

There's probably a more elegant way to to do this, but I didn't want to go on a big refactoring mission.

http://gist.github.com/380716

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Chris Chalfant added a comment - - edited Here is a patch for chef 0.8.10 chef/lib/chef/rest.rb http://gist.github.com/380675 Turns out we need to patch a few more files for knife cookbook upload, too: chef/lib/chef/streaming_cookbook_uploader.rb chef/lib/chef/knife/cookbook_upload.rb There's probably a more elegant way to to do this, but I didn't want to go on a big refactoring mission. http://gist.github.com/380716
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Seth Chisamore added a comment -

Related tickets:
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2232
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2447

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Seth Chisamore added a comment - Related tickets: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2232 http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2447
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