Please add support for using SOCKS proxy

[cpiatnit]

Here is my scenario

our laptops ◄----►Jumpbox1 ◄----►Jumpbox2 ◄----►Router ◄----►devices to be configured

as the provider uses https for this please consider scenarios like this.

After experimenting with this and reading a little about how it should work it seems that this could be handled using socks proxy
I do not know Golang to test this. Chatgpt or Google's version of AI applied to searching is suggesting the below

You can set the following environment variables to configure the proxy:
HTTP_PROXY: Set this to the address of your HTTP proxy server.
HTTPS_PROXY: Set this to the address of your HTTPS proxy server.
NO_PROXY: Set this to a comma-separated list of hosts that should bypass the proxy.
Code

export HTTP_PROXY=http://your-proxy-server:port/
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://your-proxy-server:port/
export NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1

If you are writing custom Go code that interacts with Terraform providers, you can explicitly check for and use the proxy settings from the environment variables.
Go

package main

import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"os"
)

func main() {
// ... other code

// Get proxy settings from environment variables
httpProxy := os.Getenv("HTTP_PROXY")
httpsProxy := os.Getenv("HTTPS_PROXY")

// Create an HTTP client with proxy settings
client := &http.Client{}
if httpProxy != "" {
client.Transport = &http.Transport{
Proxy: http.ProxyURL(httpProxy),
}
}

// ... use the client to make requests
}