HTTP_PROXY appears not to be followed

[darkwing]

For local testing, I'm hoping to proxy GitHub API calls to a local host (http://host:8000/). I do the following command to start my application:

export HTTP_PROXY='http://host:8000/' && node app

Yet octonode still hits https://api.github.com/repos/........ to fetch data. According to the documentation, shouldn't http://host:8000/..... be used?

[pksunkara]

Can you try setting HTTPS_PROXY?

[darkwing]

No dice; a reduced example:

> export HTTPS_PROXY='http://host:8000/'
> node

var octonode = require('octonode');
var client = octonode.client();
var j = client.get('/users/darkwing', function(){});

// Request goes to:  https://api.github.com/users/darkwing