[FEED] Support for HTTP Proxy when using lookups

[BartOpitz]

Provide your feedback
I need to contact CheckMK over a http proxy, and it seems, that not only lookups do not expose needed parameters, but even worse - they set explicitely use_proxy: None to disable proxy support.

Component Name
API Lookups, but possibly also all other modules (environment: might however work there...)

Ansible Version
AWX 24.6.1 (ansible 2.15.5.post0)

Collection Version
last (5.10)

Environment
AWX 24.6.1

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Additional context
I thought that proxy support is a normal thing but it seams that not really....

[robin-checkmk]

Hello @BartOpitz and thank you for your feedback.
As you certainly are aware, this collection is a community effort entirely and has no dedicated resources. People invest their free time in creating content and improving the collection.
So I am sure you understand, that sometimes features, which might be expected to be default, have not been implemented (yet).
We happily consider pull requests, if one knows how to implement this themselves.
Alternatively, this will be a feature request, which folks can pick up and implement, when they find the time.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

[github-actions]

This issue has been stale for 60 days. It will close in 7 days.

[BartOpitz]

Currently I am a bit busy and I have found a workaround, so this might take a bit... I hope however to get to this

[robin-checkmk]

I am glad you found a workaround for you @BartOpitz! Rest assured, this is on my radar as well, I just cannot promise a timeline. But look out for a PR, if you want to start working on this, in case we were faster. 🙂

I'll keep you posted here. ✌️

Cheers!

[robin-checkmk]

A quick update, after doing some research:

1. All modules (including lookups) respect the environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy.
   a) It looks like authentication might misbehave for lookup modules, but I am still investigating.
   b) The "use_proxy=None" mentioned above does not seem to have any effect.
2. I pushed a first vibe-coded draft for proxy support (I really am no developer!) here: Enable proxy support #861. Anybody who wants to pick it up, go ahead!