axios: Axios Proxy Issues - 501 and SSL errors

Describe the bug

Getting weird error messages when passing a proxy into an Axios request. I’ve tried to add a proxy parameter to the following GET request and I get a 501 error code and when I then add a protocol parameter to the proxy object I get an openssl error

Note that I don’t have any of these issues when using the library axios-https-proxy-fix, https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios-https-proxy-fix

To Reproduce

axios
    .get(prod, {
        proxy: {
            host: proxy.host,
            port: proxy.port,
            auth: {
                username: proxy.userName,
                password: proxy.password,
            },
        }
    })

Then I tried adding protocol to the proxy object, like so:

axios
    .get(prod, {
        proxy: {
            protocol: "https",
            host: proxy.host,
            port: proxy.port,
            auth: {
                username: proxy.userName,
                password: proxy.password,
            },
        }
    })

Error:

write EPROTO 17828:error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number:c:\ws\deps\openssl\openssl\ssl\record\ssl3_record.c:332:

Expected behavior

No 501 and no openssl issues. Should get a 200 response.

Environment

Axios Version 0.21.0
Node.js Version 12.17
OS: Windows 10

Additional context/Screenshots

N/A

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 32
Comments: 20 (1 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Until a proper fix is implemented in the library, here is the workaround I used:

import HttpsProxyAgent from 'https-proxy-agent'

    this.client = axios.create({
      baseURL: `https://${this.host}`,
      httpsAgent: new HttpsProxyAgent(process.env.HTTPS_PROXY),
      proxy: false,
      ....
    });

Note that proxy must be set to false otherwise the adapter will try to initialize it again from the environment variable.

For a complete example (with proxy and no proxy): https://github.com/spectrocloud/k8s-set-context/blob/690044f1c02048af0e4b7470dd70306ef1f4556b/src/client.ts#L36-L54

saamalik on Jan 23, 2021

Not working for me either, please fix

cs17sss2 on Jan 3, 2021

Having the same issue. Could we implement the fix of this fixer library/package, axios-https-proxy-fix, it also fixed my issue. Cheers.

DiogoTheCoder on Dec 6, 2020

I’m facing the same issue

ZubaerRahman on Jan 2, 2021

this keep happening and @saamalik solution did not work for me. is there a working workaround or should we downgrade to 0.18 in the mean time ?

dor-benatia on Jun 8, 2021

I tried with different proxies and I can confirm none of mine are working either

elapovski on Jan 4, 2021

Having this weird issue myself

JamelxD on Jan 4, 2021

You can add this parameter to start: node --tls-min-v1.0 xxx.js

HandsomeTea on Feb 25, 2022

For version “0.26.0” @saamalik snippet works using @HandsomeTea flag, for the ones that can not control the CLI flags, you can use also an environment variable:

NODE_OPTIONS=--tls-min-v1.0

To create the proxy instance I used:

    const proxyAgent = new HttpsProxyAgent('http://username:password@proxy_uri:port');

Reference: https://matthewdf10.medium.com/aws-lambda-node-12-x-with-tls-1-0-b8c33644ea58

jdsampayo on Mar 28, 2022

Same issue

jjelement on Feb 11, 2022