HTTP Proxy Support

[Harihar Shankar]

Is there a way to tell the client to use an HTTP proxy?

By default, it does not recognize either the system wide HTTP proxy settings, or the proxy set using the environment variables http_proxy, https_proxy.

[Carsten Klee]

additional note: The request module should take care of the environment variables. But somehow it doesn't within the client. Setting a proxy option here will succeed. But setting a proxy option in a config.json will not.

Tried this:

config.json:

{
  "proxy": "http://my.proxy.com:1234"
}

and

ldf-client http://fragments.dbpedia.org/2014/en -f q.sparql -c config.json

[Ruben Verborgh]

There is currently no support for HTTP proxies, but we can add this as a feature.

@cKlee We have stopped using request because it led to socket problems.

[Carsten Klee]

I would (still) appreciate if you add this feature. I have no idea where to put a proxy setting. Otherwise I would make a PR, but I can't.

[Ruben Verborgh]

@cKlee Would proxychains help you in the meantime?

[Carsten Klee]

Thank you Ruben for the hint. Proxychains4 works for me. Nevertheless a proxy-option would be nice.

[Ruben Taelman]

This project has now been deprecated in favor of Comunica, where this feature is supported.