Chef Provider: Proxy not seeing

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This issue was originally opened by @gopisaba as hashicorp/terraform#5898. It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original body of the issue is below.

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Hi Team,

I am using terraform to build AWS and Chef infrastructure. From company laptop we have strict security policies and using proxies to connect to internet. We have set environment variables like http_proxy and https_proxy to connect to the AWS and chef servers.

The problem is terraform can able to connect to the AWS but not to the Chef server.

`module.production.chef_environment.environment: Refreshing state... (ID: production)
Error refreshing state: 1 error(s) occurred:

• chef_environment.environment: Get https://api.chef.io/organizations/xxxxx/environments/production: dial tcp 52.20.79.149:443: connectex: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time or established connection failed bec
  ause connected host has failed to respond.`

I am able to connect to the Chef server via knife command and GUI but not with the help of terraform. Looks like terraform-chef provider is not seeing the http_proxy and https_proxy like terraform-aws provider. I could able to replicate the same problem in different machines as well.