Contentful ignoring proxy configuration

Question

I'm trying to setup a proxy to Contentful Delivery SDK to intercept the response and add relevant data. For development purposes, the proxy is still running locally. This is the configuration I'm using right now:

const client = createClient({
  space: SPACE_ID,
  accessToken: ACCESS_TOKEN,
  host: CDN_URL,
  environment: ENVIRONMENT,
  basePath: 'api',
  retryOnError: false,
  proxy: {
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 8080,
    auth: {
      username: 'username',
      password: 'password',
    },
  },
});

For some reason, this client keeps ignoring the proxy settings, making the request directly to Contentful CDN. I tried removing the host field from the configuration, but it didn't change the outcome. I also tried using the httpsAgent configuration with HttpsProxyAgent instead of the proxy one, but also didn't work.

Versions:

• "contentful": "^7.11.3"
• "react": "^16.13.1"

Answer 1

Firstly, the proxy configuration cannot be used client-side. It's unclear if that is your use case here.

There is a known bug here. Either try installing a newer version of Axios, which is the lib that the contentful SDK uses. Or use a proxyAgent:

const HttpProxyAgent = require("http-proxy-agent");
const httpAgent = new HttpProxyAgent({host: "proxyhost", port: "proxyport", auth: "username:password"})

Now just pass the agent into the create client method:

const client = createClient({
    ....
    httpAgent: httpAgent,
    ....
});