# Could Onebox Support URL Retrieval via Proxy
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [9 Julho , 2015 20:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935 "2015-07-09T20:12:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Arnott](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven_Arnott)
#### Post date: [9 Julho , 2015 20:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/1 "2015-07-09T20:12:03Z")
Our discourse installation is tightly locked down so it’s not possible for the OneBox to reach out from the server to an external website to provide a preview.
There is a proxy server that it go via. How can OneBox be told to retrieve the URL via a proxy host?
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [9 Julho , 2015 20:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/2 "2015-07-09T20:17:23Z")
I don’t know the answer, but it sounds like you’ll also have trouble updating the Docker image through the admin UI, too.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [9 Julho , 2015 21:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/3 "2015-07-09T21:31:49Z")
You would need to submit a PR for this, there is no built in way of doing this, we assume servers have access to the Internet.
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Arnott](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven_Arnott)
#### Post date: [10 Julho , 2015 14:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/4 "2015-07-10T14:46:16Z")
As I’m not a ruby coder, I would have no idea where to start on adding proxy support.
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### Author:  [@kpfleming](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kpfleming)
#### Post date: [10 Julho , 2015 14:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/5 "2015-07-10T14:57:51Z")
I suspect the underlying HTTP/HTTPS library being used has configuration options for proxy usage, it would mostly be a matter of figuring out what they are and then finding a good place to store them (in the container config, or through the admin interface, or some other place).
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### Author:  [@Steven\_Arnott](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven_Arnott)
#### Post date: [10 Julho , 2015 15:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/6 "2015-07-10T15:28:38Z")
So far I see the following libraries:
Net::HTTP (Onebox.Helper.fetch\_response)
Nokogiri::HTML (Onebox.Engine.HTML ‘raw’)
MultiJson.load (Onebox.Engine.JSON ‘raw’)
According to [class Net::HTTP - Documentation for Ruby 2.0.0](http://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.0.0/Net/HTTP.html) http\_proxy env should work
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### Author:  [@jimbob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimbob)
#### Post date: [20 Julho , 2017 11:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/7 "2017-07-20T11:18:08Z")
Apologies for necroing this old thread… I couldn’t find anything else on topic that is newer.
Did this get resolved? I’m in the same situation with a discourse instance that only has internet access via a proxy server.
My app.yml defines the necessary http\_proxy and https\_proxy env vars, and these are respected for some actions (e.g. during install) but not for onebox retrieval.
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### Author:  [@alexweej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexweej)
#### Post date: [4 Agosto , 2017 10:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/8 "2017-08-04T10:40:34Z")
We’re also having the same problem. We have http\_proxy, HTTP\_PROXY, https\_proxy and HTTPS\_PROXY defined. As far as I know the proxy is allowing access to e.g. Twitter.
Does this onebox plugin need to talk to a specific web site or does it go directly to e.g. Twitter?
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### Author:  [@SharonK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SharonK)
#### Post date: [21 Maio , 2018 10:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/9 "2018-05-21T10:46:37Z")
Does anyone know if v2 will resolve this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [8 Novembro , 2020 05:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/10 "2020-11-08T05:05:02Z")
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### Author:  [@fzngagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fzngagan)
#### Post date: [8 Novembro , 2020 08:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-onebox-support-url-retrieval-via-proxy/30935/11 "2020-11-08T08:46:47Z")
Vale a pena conferir
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-assistant-crawl-for-those-previews-reliably/107405/35](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-assistant-crawl-for-those-previews-reliably/107405/35)