[Bug]: HTTP action - can't download files via HTTPS and Proxy

[dave-csc]

Apache Hop version?

2.11.0

Java version?

17.0.2

Operating system

Linux

What happened?

The HTTP action can download files via HTTPS only if a proxy is not specified (and not required): if a proxy server is specified, the values are ignored.

Proposed fix: set also the Java system variables https.proxyHost and https.proxyPort (in the current Hop version only the HTTP counterparts are set and reset), using the values provided in the dialog under Authentication.

Issue Priority

Priority: 2

Issue Component

Component: Actions

[dave-csc]

Found a (very partial and clumsy) workaround, if you need to execute a workflow via Hop Run: you can inject those Java variables by modifying the HOP_OPTIONS parameters, in a single-line (Linux) command this would be something like:

PREV_HOP_OPTIONS="${HOP_OPTIONS}" && HOP_OPTIONS="${HOP_OPTIONS} -Dhttps.proxyHost=my-proxy-host.com -Dhttps.proxyPort=3128" && hop-run.sh -e my_environment -f main.hwf && HOP_OPTIONS="${PREV_HOP_OPTIONS}"

For a better bug fix, you can probably consider to use the Java Proxy class instead of the system variables (more info here, section 3).

Hope this helps for the resolution :)