Http Requests with default options (i.e. Proxysettings for every future request)

[TiiFuchs]

Hi,

I'd like to hear around what you think of an Http::defaultOptions([]);-style method so you can set a few Guzzle options that should be applied to EVERY request that is made during the lifecycle of the application.

My use-case for this would be to configure Guzzle to use a proxy, if a corresponding app config says so. I used this "workaround" before, but this has a lot of downsides and technically it swaps a Factory object (that is requested from the service container) with a PendingRequest object:

$this->app->extend(Factory::class, function (Factory $http, $app) {
    if (config('app.request_proxy')) {
        return $http->withOptions([
            'proxy'  => config('app.request_proxy'),
            'verify' => false,
        ]);
    }

    return $http;
});

To my knowledge there is no easy way to set a bunch of Guzzle settings for every future request, except for overwriting the Factory and doing all the work myself.

My proposal is, and I'm willing to help with the implementation, to create a Http::defaultOptions(array $options) method inside of Factory, that can be used inside the AppServiceProvider i.e. to set default options like the above mentioned proxy setting.