From 90bbcf1bcf0d953a8bdb17f6bbf77a712364dbce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tobi <31960611+tsmethurst@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:51:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [docs] Document http/s/socks5 proxy use (#1118)

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 docs/installation_guide/advanced.md | 8 ++++++++
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@@ -156,3 +156,11 @@ Then we get the following response:
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 In the above response, note that the `subject` of the response contains the desired account-domain of `superseriousbusiness.org`, whereas the links contain the actual host value of `gts.superseriousbusiness.org`.
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+## Can I make my GoToSocial instance use a proxy (http, https, socks5) for outgoing requests?
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+Yes! GoToSocial supports canonical environment variables for doing this: `HTTP_PROXY`, `HTTPS_PROXY` and `NO_PROXY` (or the lowercase versions thereof). `HTTPS_PROXY` takes precedence over `HTTP_PROXY` for https requests.
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+The http client that GoToSocial uses will be initialized with the appropriate proxy.
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+The environment values may be either a complete URL or a `host[:port]`, in which case the "http" scheme is assumed. The schemes "http", "https", and "socks5" are supported.