[FR][Desktop] Add proxy support

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Feb 3, 2026 by NightMachinery Closed Feb 3, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What variant of Codex are you using?

App

What feature would you like to see?

Codex App doesn't seem to support setting an HTTP/socks5 proxy for accessing the internet.

Additional information

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4 Comments

etraut-openai contributor · 6 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion. We're already tracking this in https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/6060 and https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/4242. Please upvote one or both of these.

The Codex app is built on top of the Codex CLI, so any improvements we make in the CLI will also benefit the App.

NightMachinery · 6 months ago

@etraut-openai Thanks. The CLI already works for me using env vars such as HTTP_PROXY. The app, however, does not.

brandtlai · 5 months ago

@etraut-openai Thanks. The CLI already works for me using env vars such as HTTP_PROXY. The app, however, does not.

The same exactly

NightMachinery · 5 months ago

I can confirm that running

export ALL_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:2080 all_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:2080 http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:2080 https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:2080 HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:2080 HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:2080 npm_config_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:2080 npm_config_https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:2080 /Applications/Codex.app/Contents/MacOS/Codex

seems to work.