[Feature] Request: Add native HTTP/HTTPS proxy support in MaxKB system settings #4204
Description
MaxKB Version
2.2.1
Please describe your needs or suggestions for improvements
Hi MaxKB team,
First of all, thank you for building such a great open-source AI knowledge base tool! We're actively using MaxKB in our internal environment and it's been very helpful.
📌 Feature Request
We'd like to request a new system configuration option to allow MaxKB to use an HTTP/HTTPS proxy when calling external APIs (e.g., LLM providers like OpenAI, Gemini, or third-party data sources).
🌍 Use Case
Our server is deployed in mainland China, but we need to access overseas LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Gemini,Anthropic) that require traffic to go through a proxy (e.g., corporate proxy or self-hosted forward proxy).
Currently, MaxKB does not respect system-level http_proxy environment variables, and there's no UI or config file option to specify a proxy.
As a result, API calls fail with timeout or connection errors unless we run the entire Docker container in host network mode with a system-wide VPN — which is not ideal for security or multi-tenant environments.
Please describe the solution you suggest
Using network_mode: host in Docker + system-wide proxy → breaks container isolation.
Modifying Docker daemon proxy settings → only affects image pulls, not runtime traffic.
Running a transparent proxy with iptables → complex and fragile.
Additional Information
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