node-gyp configure gives "tunneling socket could not be established"

[papaiatis]

Hi!

I'm behind corporate proxy and I need to use node-gyp.
When calling "node-gyp configure" it always gives me this error: "tunneling socket could not be estabilished".
No matter if I correctly set npm proxy or specifiy the "--proxy" parameter, or even clear out proxy completely it gives this error.
When calling wget for the .tar.gz file it downloads just fine from the very same terminal.
I tried editing lib/install.js to download from http:// but that timed out.
Any help would be appreciated!

myuser@devpc ~/code/src $ node-gyp configure --verbose
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp verb cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/node-gyp', 'configure', '--verbose' ]
gyp info using node-gyp@3.6.2
gyp info using node@6.9.4 | linux | x64
gyp verb command configure []
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python2" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` succeeded python2 /usr/bin/python2
gyp verb check python version `/usr/bin/python2 -c "import platform; print(platform.python_version());"` returned: "2.7.12\n"
gyp verb get node dir no --target version specified, falling back to host node version: 6.9.4
gyp verb command install [ '6.9.4' ]
gyp verb install input version string "6.9.4"
gyp verb install installing version: 6.9.4
gyp verb install --ensure was passed, so won't reinstall if already installed
gyp verb install version is already installed, need to check "installVersion"
gyp verb got "installVersion" 0
gyp verb needs "installVersion" 9
gyp verb install version is no good; reinstalling
gyp verb ensuring nodedir is created /home/myuser/.node-gyp/6.9.4
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/download/release/v6.9.4/node-v6.9.4-headers.tar.gz
gyp verb download using proxy url: "http://proxy.mycompany.com:8080"
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp verb command remove [ '6.9.4' ]
gyp verb remove using node-gyp dir: /home/myuser/.node-gyp
gyp verb remove removing target version: 6.9.4
gyp verb remove removing development files for version: 6.9.4
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: tunneling socket could not be established, cause=Parse Error
gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.onError (/usr/lib64/node_modules/node-gyp/node_modules/tunnel-agent/index.js:177:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.g (events.js:291:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:188:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Socket.socketOnData (_http_client.js:368:9)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:176:18)
gyp ERR! stack     at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:134:10)
gyp ERR! stack     at TCP.onread (net.js:548:20)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-119-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "configure" "--verbose"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/myuser/code/src
gyp ERR! node -v v6.9.4
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2
gyp ERR! not ok 

[bnoordhuis]

Since you are on Linux, try strace -s 256 -fe read'ing node-gyp. 'Parse error' means the proxy sent a response that node's HTTP parser couldn't understand.

[refack]

@papaiatis a workaround could be using the --tarball option. Ref: #1154 (comment)

[papaiatis]

@refack Thanks, that worked!
@bnoordhuis strace was a good idea, but it did not give me any better clue what's wrong. It said I got HTTP 200 for that tarball file and then suddenly got the mentioned exception.

[refack]

@papaiatis happy we could help.
I'm closing this, since IMHO it's more of a network configuration then a node-gyp issue. Feel free to reopen if you feel different, or have more information.