Proxy Authentication Issue

Proxy authentication is not supported for extensions in Visual Studio Code. This is mainly because of the limitations in electron itself. However, the authentication is available for native VSCode features. Here is VSCode’s documentation for proxy support and other related Github issues,

Related Issues:

• Extension proxy support
• http: deal with the lack of http proxy support in node.js core.
• Support authentication with session.resolveProxy()

So, in cases like these, you have two options. Set the username and password in the environment variables or alternatively set them in the VSCode setting http.proxyAuthorization which is stored in the VSCode settings file. Both the solutions are sub optimal but unfortunately this is the only one available as of today ☹