504: Gateway Timeout when trying to add .gitignore behind proxy

[LaurentChardin]

The 'Add gitignore' command does not seem to work when behing a proxy : it generates a 504: Gateway Timeout error message.

The following environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy are set.
And VScode is respecting them since i could download the extension.

[CodeZombieCH]

Thank you for reporting this issue. I will take a closer look at this.

Resources:
http://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/setup-overview#_proxy-server-support

[CodeZombieCH]

I just asked the Visual Studio Code team what would be the recommended way to support proxy from an extension other than writing everything from scratch or copy&paste code from Visual Studio Code code base. As soon as I receive feedback I will post an update here and start with the implementation.

[ibigpapa]

I too am hitting this issue

[ibigpapa]

I think the proper way would be to pull the proxy information from the configurations. If i understand the documentation correctly the workspace.getconfig command actually pulls a merged Global config with settings in workspace config overwriting the globals.

Then i guess since code is available on github you might be able to extract the http request they use when it uses the proxy. I believe it's in the extensions code section.

[CodeZombieCH]

@ibigpapa: Thanks for your research. I came up with almost the same idea when I was looking for a solution. As the implementation is already part of Visual Studio Code, I asked them if they could expose the proxy settings through an API (see microsoft/vscode#12588). So far I have no information if the node package has been published.

As I have some time this weekend, I plan to implement proxy support this weekend by copy&paste the vscode implementation and publish it as version 0.5.0.

[CodeZombieCH]

I just completed the proxy support implementation and tested it with a proxy set by Visual Studio Code settings.

@ibigpapa @LaurentChardin I would very much appreciate if you find some time installing the alpha version at the end of this comment and verify if this versions works with your proxy setup. Thanks a lot.

Alpha version: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6-NC49ru2VGMTdSYjZ2dV96STg

[jeedev0815]

I have tested the 0.50-alpha version and it works with my proxy settings!
I had previously also the problems as described by @ibigpapa .
Thanks!

[ibigpapa]

Tested on my system without a proxy and works just fine. Turned on the proxy and tested again and it still works 👍

[CodeZombieCH]

Thank you @jeedev0815 and @ibigpapa for the feedback. I will release the new version within the next days.