diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a1892dc7b4a9f..e09c0083d0b68 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@
     "expose-loader": "0.7.0",
     "extract-text-webpack-plugin": "0.8.2",
     "file-loader": "0.8.4",
-    "font-awesome": "4.4.0",
     "flot-charts": "0.8.3",
+    "font-awesome": "4.4.0",
     "glob": "5.0.13",
     "glob-all": "3.0.1",
     "good-squeeze": "2.1.0",
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@
     "h2o2": "5.1.1",
     "handlebars": "4.0.5",
     "hapi": "14.2.0",
+    "http-proxy-agent": "1.0.0",
     "imports-loader": "0.6.4",
     "inert": "4.0.2",
     "jade": "1.11.0",
diff --git a/src/cli_plugin/install/downloaders/http.js b/src/cli_plugin/install/downloaders/http.js
index f8c28d65b7733..f179a2ebd807c 100644
--- a/src/cli_plugin/install/downloaders/http.js
+++ b/src/cli_plugin/install/downloaders/http.js
@@ -2,11 +2,39 @@ import Wreck from 'wreck';
 import Progress from '../progress';
 import { fromNode as fn } from 'bluebird';
 import { createWriteStream } from 'fs';
+import HttpProxyAgent from 'http-proxy-agent';
+import URL from 'url';
+
+function getProxyAgent(sourceUrl) {
+  const httpProxy = process.env.HTTP_PROXY;
+  // we have a proxy detected, lets use it
+  if (httpProxy && httpProxy !== '') {
+    // get the hostname of the sourceUrl
+    const hostname = URL.parse(sourceUrl).hostname;
+    const noProxy = process.env.NO_PROXY || '';
+
+    // proxy if the hostname is not in noProxy
+    const shouldProxy = (noProxy.indexOf(hostname) === -1);
+
+    if (shouldProxy) {
+      return new HttpProxyAgent(httpProxy);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return false;
+}
 
 function sendRequest({ sourceUrl, timeout }) {
   const maxRedirects = 11; //Because this one goes to 11.
   return fn(cb => {
-    const req = Wreck.request('GET', sourceUrl, { timeout, redirects: maxRedirects }, (err, resp) => {
+    const reqOptions = { timeout, redirects: maxRedirects };
+    const proxyAgent = getProxyAgent(sourceUrl);
+
+    if (proxyAgent) {
+      reqOptions.agent = proxyAgent;
+    }
+
+    const req = Wreck.request('GET', sourceUrl, reqOptions, (err, resp) => {
       if (err) {
         if (err.code === 'ECONNREFUSED') {
           err = new Error('ENOTFOUND');