How to specify a user id and password for Visual Studio Code with an authenticating proxy?

Question

How to specify a user id and password for Visual Studio Code with an authenticating proxy?

I\'ve seen the Proxy Server Support on the main VS Code site, but this onl

Answer 1

If you don't want to store your credentials in the settings file, fiddler can be used to proxy the call to the proxy. Furthermore, I believe the above only works for proxy servers using basic authentication, the following should work for NTLM.

VSCode Open Settings File:

%APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json

add the following:

{
    "http.proxy": "http://127.0.0.1:8888",
    "http.proxyStrictSSL": false
}

Fiddler Confirm fiddler settings:

Fiddler Ensure Fiddler set to automatically authenticate:

VSCode Extensions should now be online:

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Update

This is now no longer required following implementation of PR #22369 which was implemented in version 1.15 Proxy server authentication.

In my case I still needed to add:

"http.proxyStrictSSL": false