Can't make serverside axios api call behind a firewall - node.js

Question

I'm looking into axios to use for some node.js http calls to APIs while inside a corp firewall - and i'm falling down at the first hurdle.
I found an example that uses axios to do a server http call below
const axios = require('axios');
const API = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com';
/* GET api listing. */
router.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.send('api works');
});
// Get all posts
router.get('/posts', (req, res) => {
// Get posts from the mock api
axios.get(`${API}/posts`, { proxy: { host: 'http://proxy.com', port: 8080}})
//axios.get(`${API}/posts`)
.then(posts => {
res.status(200).json(posts.data);
})
.catch(error => {
res.status(500).send(error)
});
});
module.exports = router;
but when i'm behind the firewall i get an error below
// http://localhost:3000/api/posts
{
"code": "ENOTFOUND",
"errno": "ENOTFOUND",
"syscall": "getaddrinfo",
"hostname": "http://proxy.com",
"host": "http://proxy.com",
"port": 8080,
"config": {
"transformRequest": {
},
"transformResponse": {
},
"timeout": 0,
"xsrfCookieName": "XSRF-TOKEN",
"xsrfHeaderName": "X-XSRF-TOKEN",
"maxContentLength": -1,
"headers": {
"Accept": "application/json, text/plain, */*",
"User-Agent": "axios/0.15.3",
"host": "jsonplaceholder.typicode.com"
},
"method": "get",
"proxy": {
"host": "http://proxy.com",
"port": 8080
},
"url": "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts"
it works find when i switch to a direct connection to the internet and the proxy setting are what i use for npm - i'm not sure if the final solution will be inside or outside of the firewall but i can't figure out to do this either specific to this api or even globally just for dev.. any help would be appreciated..

Answer 1

I believe that axios just wants the host in the proxy config, not the URL with protocol:
"proxy": {
"host": "proxy.com",
"port": 8080
}