Corporate Proxy variable is not being respected by the CLI

[AlieGG]

The CLI is not respecting the http_proxy env variable

Error:

Upgrade Check Error:  { [Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND raw.githubusercontent.com raw.githubusercontent.com:443]
  code: 'ENOTFOUND',
  errno: 'ENOTFOUND',
  syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
  hostname: 'raw.githubusercontent.com',
  host: 'raw.githubusercontent.com',
  port: 443 }

[eighteyes]

This was an issue with the version checks, which we've removed, since auto-upgrade turned out to be be one of those clever ideas that programmers come up with that turns out horrific in practice. These changes were made in the cli-modules, so your best bet would be to reinstall matrix-cli at this time and try again. Thanks!

[AlieGG]

Just a note, we don't have a proxy handy so we were not able to test this. Please let us know how it works.

[trybius]

Hi,
The updated patch has removed the errors regarding the auto update, but now the matrix command seems to just hang for 10 - 45 seconds without doing anything, no matter what I pass into it.

I've tried with the debug var, and this is what I'm getting :

xxx@xxx:~$ DEBUG=* matrix register
  cli Env:  rc +0ms
xxx@xxx:~$

[eighteyes]

Great, so it doesn't work. Let me give it another shot. You're specifically trying the register command?

[trybius]

No matter what command I use (no command, register, use, login) it does the same thing, but with the delay changing from instant, to 60 seconds depending on the command.

[eighteyes]

Shoot, it seems like request normally handles HTTP_PROXY fine so I'm not sure where this is going amiss.

Aha! Firebase! firebase/firebase-tools#36

We definitely want to support proxies, so we'll keep this in our bug-tracker, but I hesitate to say this will get resolved quickly.

[trybius]

Ah, that is a pity. I imagine some of your users like myself will be stuck behind a proxy.

Can you tell me what addresses / ports are accessed in and out of matrix? I can try to ask our IT guys to add rules based on that.

Could you also tell me if there is an alternative to using the matrix program? Is there a different way to upload programs to the device directly on the Pi, without needing the host CLI?

[trybius]

FYI - I have been able to go through our proxy using a program called proxychains4 (https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng) in case any other users need to go through a proxy.