Error "tunneling socket could not be established", how to do it right??

Question

Node.js

making a request

const req = require('request');

var options = {
  url: 'https://vk.com/',
  proxy: 'https://login:[email protected]:YYYY/',
  method: 'POST',
  headers: headers,
};
var headers = {
  'User-Agent': 'Node js'
};

function callback(error, response, body) {
  console.log(error);
  if (response !== undefined)
    console.log(response.statusCode);
}

req(options, callback);

and i get an error

{ [Error: tunneling socket could not be established, cause=write EPROTO 101057795:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:openssl\ssl\s23_clnt.c:794:] code: 'ECONNRESET' }

how to fix or do it right??

Answer 1

try changing options to the following. strictSSL false is added, and just http together with https is written in the proxy.
Also an additional question, are you making the request directly or are you on some sort of corporate network or behind a proxy server?

var options = {
      url: 'https://vk.com',
      proxy: 'http://login:[email protected]:YYYY',
      method: 'POST',
      headers: headers,
      strictSSL: false
};