Feature/correctly use https proxies (#150)

* chore: add https-proxy-agent

* feat: apply HttpsProxyAgent when https_proxy environment variable is defined

* chore: version bump

* fix: bump libs

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 3.9.4
+
+-   the `https_proxy` environment variable is now respected by the connector
+
 ## 3.9.3
 
 -   errors resulting from the backbone will now be correctly return a `500` http status code

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "name": "@nmshd/connector",
-    "version": "3.9.3",
+    "version": "3.9.4",
     "private": true,
     "description": "The Enmeshed Connector",
     "homepage": "https://enmeshed.eu/integrate",
@@ -70,20 +70,21 @@
         "@nmshd/runtime": "4.3.7",
         "agentkeepalive": "4.5.0",
         "amqplib": "^0.10.3",
-        "axios": "^1.6.7",
+        "axios": "^1.6.8",
         "compression": "1.7.4",
         "cors": "2.8.5",
-        "express": "4.18.3",
+        "express": "4.19.2",
         "helmet": "7.1.0",
+        "https-proxy-agent": "^7.0.4",
         "json-stringify-safe": "5.0.1",
         "jsonschema": "1.4.1",
-        "mqtt": "^5.4.0",
+        "mqtt": "^5.5.0",
         "multer": "^1.4.5-lts.1",
         "nconf": "0.12.1",
         "on-headers": "1.0.2",
         "rapidoc": "9.3.4",
         "redis": "^4.6.13",
-        "reflect-metadata": "0.2.1",
+        "reflect-metadata": "0.2.2",
         "swagger-ui-express": "5.0.0",
         "typescript-ioc": "3.2.2",
         "typescript-rest": "3.0.4",
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@
         "@types/lodash": "^4.17.0",
         "@types/luxon": "^3.4.2",
         "@types/nconf": "^0.10.6",
-        "@types/node": "^20.11.28",
+        "@types/node": "^20.12.4",
         "@types/on-headers": "^1.0.3",
         "@types/swagger-ui-express": "^4.1.6",
         "@types/yamljs": "^0.2.34",
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@
         "prettier": "^3.2.5",
         "ts-jest": "^29.1.2",
         "ts-node": "^10.9.2",
-        "typescript": "^5.4.2",
+        "typescript": "^5.4.3",
         "typescript-rest-swagger": "github:nmshd/typescript-rest-swagger#1.2.1"
     },
     "overrides": {

src/ConnectorRuntime.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { ConsumptionServices, DataViewExpander, GetIdentityInfoResponse, ModuleC
 import { AccountController, CoreErrors as TransportCoreErrors } from "@nmshd/transport";
 import axios from "axios";
 import fs from "fs";
+import { HttpsProxyAgent } from "https-proxy-agent";
 import { validate as validateSchema } from "jsonschema";
 import path from "path";
 import { ConnectorMode } from "./ConnectorMode";
@@ -85,6 +86,11 @@ export class ConnectorRuntime extends Runtime<ConnectorRuntimeConfig> {
         const loggerFactory = new NodeLoggerFactory(connectorConfig.logging);
         ConnectorLoggerFactory.init(loggerFactory);
 
+        if (process.env.https_proxy) {
+            const httpsProxy = process.env.https_proxy;
+            connectorConfig.transportLibrary.httpsAgent = new HttpsProxyAgent(httpsProxy);
+        }
+
         const runtime = new ConnectorRuntime(connectorConfig, loggerFactory);
         await runtime.init();