How can I get the system proxy setting in node js

Question

I am writing a desktop application on windows with an electron. Now I need to use the System global proxy setting as my own proxy, using a query to get some data like this

request({ url: "http://ahdas.drnh.gov.tw/index.php", method: "POST", proxy: this.proxyRequestUrl, headers: { "User-Agent": this.mainWindow.webContents.session.getUserAgent(), "Accept": "application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01", "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", "Cookie": cookies }, form: {'act': 'Display/built/' + bookKey + "/" + postPageKey} }, (err, response, body) => { }); 

So, how can I get the global proxy settings of the system and assign this to this.proxyRequestUrl?

Answer 1

If you make http calls from the renderer, it will use the system default proxy settings.

If you need to make http calls from the main process, you can use a remote electronic-remote ajax module that will make calls through the renderer process.

You can also use electron-fetch in the main process, and it will use the system proxy settings.