Install package manager behind a corporative proxy

[Djaler]

I tried to do, as instance corepack prepare pnpm@5.18.10, but got Internal Error: Error when performing the request.
I think this is because of the proxy. Where I can configure it?
I have proxy setting in .npmrc, also I have HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables

[arcanis]

At the moment there is no configuration for proxies, but it'd be nice to have

[Djaler]

Can I help you with this?

[arcanis]

For sure! This is the place where we handle https queries; adding support for HTTPS_PROXY there would be appreciated:

https://github.com/nodejs/corepack/blob/main/sources/httpUtils.ts#L11-L23

[Djaler]

I think we could use https://github.com/gajus/global-agent. And https://github.com/np-maintain/global-tunnel if we need to support node < 10 (I didn't found info about node versions supported by corepack)

[Djaler]

So, I have a two questions:

1. Should we support node <10?
2. Where should we get proxy config from? I suggest auto load variables from env (HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, etc) and from .npmrc config

[arcanis]

Should we support node <10?

I'd go with no, as those version are past LTS.

Where should we get proxy config from? I suggest auto load variables from env (HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, etc)

Env variables are fine, but I'd prefer to hold off on complexifying the configuration by reading the .npmrc (cf this other comment). It opens many questions, and the answers aren't as easy as env configuration.

[BrunoMBento]

Hi, there!

I'm having the same problem here. I've installed corepack, enabled it, but can't run yarn. Always get this "Error when performing the request" error, and i'm behind a proxy.

Was this problem solved?

Thanks!

[Djaler]

@BrunoMBento PR with proxy support is created, it only needs to be merged

[BrunoMBento]

Thanks a lot, @Djaler !

[jonatasrs]

Same problem, with proxy configured in the environment:

node: v16.13.2
SO: Ubuntu 21.10

Internal Error: Error when performing the request
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/corepack.js:3937:20)
    at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:390:28)
    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:447:9)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:390:28)
    at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:157:8)
    at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:122:3)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)

[biandratti]

I have the same error. Does anyone know any workaround? Thanks!
node: v17.6.0
SO: Ubuntu 21.10

[icyerasor]

Same problem here.
Workaround for now: don't use corepack i guess:
corepack disable
npm install -g yarn
yarn config set registry YOUR_URL
yarn config set npmRegistryServer YOUR_URL // for yarn2
yarn config set httpProxy localhost:8887 // maybe 🤷‍♂️
And don't forget to delete your local yarn.lock file in the project folder as our industry is fucked up and it caches the initial URLs for each dependency, even if you changed the registry config inbetween 🙄

[mnajafiyazdi-Maya]

Any updates on this?

By the way, @icyerasor , if I disable the corepack, then even if I install it using npm, I don't have yarn command!
So, your workaround doesn't work for me.

Any other alternative ways?