Support running behind a proxy

[nidi3]

Take the proxy settings from the repository configuration

[szpak]

Could be nice for corporate environments. Did you mean systemProp.https.* properties or something specific in the repository configuration?

[nidi3]

Corporate environment, exactly our problem.
I meant mavenDeployer { repository() { proxy }} as this does not respect systemProp.https.*
But this is just our use case and I don't know gradle good enough to tell if this makes sense for everybody.
In the end, there should be a possibility to configure a proxy, either with or without a sensible default.

[szpak]

The plugin currently uses HTTPBuilder which seems to require defining proxy settings in a specific way. However, I'm in the middle :-) of migration to OkHttp, so there is a change it would be easier to implement.

[martijndwars]

I just ran into this as well. I'm in a corporate environment and outgoing traffic needs to go through an HTTP proxy. Most tools pick up HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY, Java has its own -DsystemProp.https.*/-DsystemProp.http.*, but none of these work for this library.

Any way I can help with this? Would it be possible to have the HTTP client (RESTClient) pick up Java's systemProp.http(s) or the system environment variables?