HTTP_PROXY environment variable is ignored

[Titzi90]

Describe the bug

According to your Documentation the action should concider the HTTP_PROXY environment variable:

Additionally this action will always consider the HTTP_PROXY environment variable.

However it seems it does not.

Running the following workflow behind a proxy does not work:

name: Proxy Test
on: workflow_dispatch
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: self-hosted
    permissions:
      id-token: write   # This is required for requesting the JWT from awsG
      contents: read    # This is required for actions/checkout
    steps:
      - name: set proxy
        run: |
          echo "HTTP_PROXY=http://my-proxy.com" >> $GITHUB_ENV
          echo "HTTPS_PROXY=http://my-proxy.com" >> $GITHUB_ENV
      - name: Configure AWS credentials
        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
        with:
          role-to-assume: arn:aws:iam::1234567890
          aws-region: eu-west-1

while this action where the proxy is explicit set does work:

name: Proxy Test
on: workflow_dispatch
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: self-hosted
    permissions:
      id-token: write   # This is required for requesting the JWT from awsG
      contents: read    # This is required for actions/checkout
    steps:
      - name: set proxy
        run: |
          echo "HTTP_PROXY=http://my-proxy.com" >> $GITHUB_ENV
          echo "HTTPS_PROXY=http://my-proxy.com" >> $GITHUB_ENV
      - name: Configure AWS credentials
        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
        with:
          role-to-assume: arn:aws:iam::1234567890
          aws-region: eu-west-1
          http-proxy: ${{ env.HTTP_PROXY }}

Regression Issue

• Select this option if this issue appears to be a regression.

Expected Behavior

Example one to work as example two

Current Behavior

Example one fails to connect to aws (time out)

Reproduction Steps

see above

Possible Solution

No response

Additional Information/Context

No response

[Titzi90]

I tested a few older versions of aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials.
It looks like it does work with v2 but stop working in v3:

name: Proxy Test
on: workflow_dispatch
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: self-hosted
    permissions:
      id-token: write   # This is required for requesting the JWT from awsG
      contents: read    # This is required for actions/checkout
    steps:
      - name: set proxy
        run: |
          echo "HTTP_PROXY=http://my-proxy.com" >> $GITHUB_ENV
          echo "HTTPS_PROXY=http://my-proxy.com" >> $GITHUB_ENV
      - name: Configure AWS credentials
        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v2
        with:
          role-to-assume: arn:aws:iam::1234567890
          aws-region: eu-west-1

runs as expected and gives the following message:

Setting proxy from environment: http://my-proxy.com/

[Dboy554]

Nice

[kellertk]

Please see #1061. Closing this as a duplicate issue.

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