Implement proxy settings for TestCafe

[georgiy-abbasov]

Are you requesting a feature or reporting a bug?

feature

What is the current behavior?

In corporate networks, where browser have specified proxy settings for access to WEB, TestCafe cannot establish connection to the remote resources, cause all requests are sent directly to the remote host, bypassing corporate proxy.

What is the expected behavior?

TestCafe should provide capability to setup proxy options, like http proxy url, http proxy port etc

[churkin]

DevExpress/testcafe-hammerhead#1032

[AlexanderMoskovkin]

Let determine API for this feature.
My proposal:
CLI:

New options:
--proxy-url
--proxy-ignore

testcafe chrome tests/ --proxy-url x.x.x.x --proxy-ignore "a.com,b.com"

Programming Interface:

const proxyUrl = 'x.x.x.x'
const ignoreHosts = ['a.com', 'b.com'];

runner
    .proxy(proxyUrl, ignoreHosts)

/cc @DevExpress/testcafe-docs @inikulin @VasilyStrelyaev

[inikulin]

What's proxy ignore options are for?

[VasilyStrelyaev]

maybe proxy-bypass instead of proxy-ignore (if I get it right)?

[AlexanderMoskovkin]

So, as I understand, we've decided don't add proxy-ignore option for now.

CLI:

New option:
--proxy-url

testcafe chrome tests/ --proxy-url x.x.x.x

Programming Interface:

const proxyUrl = 'x.x.x.x'

runner
    .proxy(proxyUrl)

Is it ok?

[georgiy-abbasov]

@AlexanderMoskovkin, we can specify proxy port in the url, if it necessary. I mean, change 'x.x.x.x' to 'x.x.x.x:yyyy' in these snippets (in the docs in the future).

[tiagorosendo]

any update ?

[inikulin]

@tiagorosendo We are working on it. More likely it will be released in alpha in a couple of weeks.

[tiagorosendo]

Ok thanks !

[anescobar1991]

Why did you guys decide on not adding proxy-ignore option? Is there any plan to add this in future and if not can I help contribute?

[inikulin]

@anescobar1991 We've decided to start with minimal feature set and add advanced features afterwards if there will be a demand for them. If you are interested in this feature, open new issue, please. PRs are welcome as well.

[wengxuan]

any update on this?

[AlexanderMoskovkin]

It's already available (since the 0.15.0 version). See the --proxy option for details.

[n0v1]

It seems that the proxy option sets the proxy even for requests to localhost, I think it would make sense to ignore the proxy for requests to localhost or 127.0.0.1. What do you think?

[AlexanderMoskovkin]

@n0v1, It sounds reasonable. We'll think about it in the context of the #1791 issue.

[MishraApa]

@AlexanderEgorov

I tried below your solutions to implement Proxy setting but did not get any proper solution:

1)I tried with command (testcafe chrome tests/ --proxy-url x.x.x.x --proxy-ignore "a.com,b.com") but it does not work for me . Can you please provide the exact syntax.

2)test runner -It's saying proxy is not a function

Also i gone thorugh http://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/documentation/using-testcafe/common-concepts/browsers/user-profiles.html and tried with new user profile but it also does work for me .

It would be great if you can reply ASAP.

[AlexanderMoskovkin]

Hi @MishraApa,

You can find the correct TestCafe API in our documentation.
Now TestCafe has option --proxy which specifies the proxy server in your local network to access the Internet.
The proxy-ignore feature is not implemented yet but will be included in the next TestCafe release.

[MishraApa]

Hi @AlexanderMoskovkin

I have tried above solution provided in documentation to host proxy but none of the solution is working for me .Could please suggest how to do proxy setting testcafe ?

Thanks
Aparna

[AlexanderMoskovkin]

Could you please describe your issue in details? What url you'd like to open in your tests, what the proxy do you use, what happens when you run your tests?

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