We are working with an on-prem deployment of Apigee Edge. All calls going out to the internet through the message processors pass through a web proxy server. When using the httpClient.get() method ( async-callout sample ), in Javascript if the call needs to go out to the internet it will time out, my…

Am I correct to assume that httpClient cannot make requests through a web proxy server?

I don’t know a good way to use the JavaScript http client to do what you describe. You said that you can create an Edge proxy to connect to the target. I suppose you’re using the http proxy settings in the HttpTargetConnection. And you said this is not ideal. I’m guessing the reason it’s not ideal …

So I don’t have a particular use case in mind and probably should have included some code/policies with the original post (I’ll add those here in a bit). The reason I want to know about getting httpClient.get() to use the web proxy is because I want to know if I can, with certainty, tell new users …

I have updated my post to better reflect what I find ideal vs not ideal. And if the answer is just tell users to simply use servicecallout instead of httpclient, then that is fine for my purposes. I just want to know what if it is possible to have the httpclient mind the webproxy.

Am I correct in assuming that the httpClient cannot send requests through a web proxy server then?

You are correct. Currently there is no way to configure the JS httpClient to utilize the httpProxy server configured for Edge. We have it as an enhancement request. For your reference, our internal ticket number is APIRT-2587.

Hi @DChiesa ! I’m new to googlecloudcommunity. Is there a way I can check the APIRT-2587 ticket’s status or can you provide some update? Thanks, Alex

In Apigee hybrid, it is possible to configure an http proxy. See the documentation . For Apigee Private Cloud, there is a different configuration. See here . For Apigee X or Edge, this question is irrelevant.

Configuring the Javascript callout to use a Webproxy Server for httpClient requests

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anonymous8 June 9, 2022, 9:28am 10

Thank you! I’ll take a look into that and if it is currently enabled at us or not.

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