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

The venerable CNTLM could help you. You give it your credentials, tell it about the upstream proxy, run it on your local machine, then point VS to the proxy at http://localhost:3128.

http://cntlm.sourceforge.net/

It's a handy solution for any application that doesn't support authenticated proxies.

Answer 2

My favorite response here is David Martin's suggestion of using Fiddler. But in case that is not something you want to undertake, below is how to set your credentials for the proxy.

To specify DOMAIN + username + password: (It will likely not work with a slash, so use %5C in the place of the slash as shown below)

// The proxy setting to use. If not set will be taken from the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables
"http.proxy": "http://DOMAIN%5Cusername:password@proxy_name_or_ip:port",
"https.proxy": "http://DOMAIN%5Cusername:password@proxy_name_or_ip:port",

// Whether the proxy server certificate should be verified against the list of supplied CAs.
"http.proxyStrictSSL": false,

To specify just username + password:

// The proxy setting to use. If not set will be taken from the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables
"http.proxy": "http://username:password@proxy_name_or_ip:port",
"https.proxy": "http://username:password@proxy_name_or_ip:port",

// Whether the proxy server certificate should be verified against the list of supplied CAs.
"http.proxyStrictSSL": false,

Answer 3

Set credentials inside the proxy url:

http://username:password@10.203.0.1:5187/

WARNING: Setting your password in plaintext in a file can easily lead to your account being compromised. Further it might violate your companies data security guidelines. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/256.html