Enable the use of OpenAI with custom authentication in scenarios where a proxy is in place before accessing the OpenAI service.

[tpamsler]

Confirm this is a feature request for the Node library and not the underlying OpenAI API.

• [x] This is a feature request for the Node library

Describe the feature or improvement you're requesting

Enable the use of OpenAI with custom authentication in scenarios where a proxy is in place before accessing the OpenAI service.

1. Initialize OpenAI with a custom authentication token and send a request to a proxy that handles the POST /api/chat/completions API.
2. The proxy validates the custom authentication token and forwards the request to OpenAI using the actual OpenAI API key.

Additional context

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[RobertCraigie]

You can configure proxies today, have you tried that? https://github.com/openai/openai-node?tab=readme-ov-file#configuring-an-https-agent-eg-for-proxies

[RobertCraigie]

The proxy setup has changed slightly in v5 fyi https://github.com/openai/openai-node#configuring-proxies

Closing this, please re-open if configuring a proxy does not work for you use case!