Download script fails when behind proxy

[dtel]

The download script fails behind a corporate proxy despite setting npm proxy & https-proxy variables. Npm works okay for downloading other required packages.

electron-chromedriver@3.0.0 install C:\electron-api-demos\node_modules\electron-chromedriver
node ./download-chromedriver.js

C:\electron-api-demos\node_modules\electron-chromedriver\download-chromedriver.js:19
if (err != null) throw err
^

Error: tunneling socket could not be established, statusCode=407
at ClientRequest.onConnect (C:\electron-api-demos\node_modules\tunnel-agent\index.js:166:19)
at ClientRequest.g (events.js:291:16)
at emitThree (events.js:116:13)
at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:194:7)
at Socket.socketOnData (_http_client.js:395:11)
at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:176:18)
at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:134:10)
at TCP.onread (net.js:548:20)

[icabanah]

Could you fix it?

[nicoalee]

Also facing this issue. Was there any resolution?

[robertpatrick]

Have you looked at the @electron/get project instructions? Assuming you are using a modern version of Electron, I would expect setting the following environment variables to allow this to work:

export ELECTRON_GET_USE_PROXY=true
export HTTPS_PROXY=<your proxy server url>
export NO_PROXY=<your no proxy list>