diff --git a/Config.groovy b/Config.groovy
index af6e0f8ac..6bf5c4fe7 100644
--- a/Config.groovy
+++ b/Config.groovy
@@ -104,5 +104,9 @@ confluence.with {
     // added
     // extraPageContent = '<ac:structured-macro ac:name="warning"><ac:parameter ac:name="title" /><ac:rich-text-body>This is a generated page, do not edit!</ac:rich-text-body></ac:structured-macro>
     extraPageContent = ''
+
+    // Optional proxy configuration, only used to access Confluence
+    // schema supports http and https
+    // proxy = [host: 'my.proxy.com', port: 1234, schema: 'http']
 }
 //end::confluenceConfig[]
diff --git a/scripts/asciidoc2confluence.groovy b/scripts/asciidoc2confluence.groovy
index f677de870..1fb19e4fc 100644
--- a/scripts/asciidoc2confluence.groovy
+++ b/scripts/asciidoc2confluence.groovy
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ def uploadAttachment = { def pageId, String url, String fileName, String note ->
     def api = new RESTClient(config.confluence.api)
     //this fixes the encoding
     api.encoderRegistry = new EncoderRegistry( charset: 'utf-8' )
+    if (config.confluence.proxy) {
+        api.setProxy(config.confluence.proxy.host, config.confluence.proxy.port, config.confluence.proxy.schema ?: 'http')
+    }
 
     def headers = [
             'Authorization': 'Basic ' + config.confluence.credentials,
@@ -138,6 +141,9 @@ def uploadAttachment = { def pageId, String url, String fileName, String note ->
         }
     } else {
         http = new HTTPBuilder(config.confluence.api + 'content/' + pageId + '/child/attachment')
+        if (config.confluence.proxy) {
+            http.setProxy(config.confluence.proxy.host, config.confluence.proxy.port, config.confluence.proxy.schema ?: 'http')
+        }
     }
     if (http) {
         http.request(Method.POST) { req ->
@@ -316,7 +322,7 @@ def parseBody =  { body, anchors, pageAnchors ->
         if(!src.startsWith("http")) {
           def newUrl = baseUrl.toString().replaceAll('\\\\','/').replaceAll('/[^/]*$','/')+src
           def fileName = java.net.URLDecoder.decode((src.tokenize('/')[-1]),"UTF-8")
-          newUrl = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(newUrl,"UTF-8")      
+          newUrl = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(newUrl,"UTF-8")
 
           trythis {
               deferredUpload <<  [0,newUrl,fileName,"automatically uploaded"]
@@ -356,6 +362,9 @@ def pushToConfluence = { pageTitle, pageBody, parentId, anchors, pageAnchors ->
     ]
     //this fixes the encoding
     api.encoderRegistry = new EncoderRegistry( charset: 'utf-8' )
+    if (config.confluence.proxy) {
+        api.setProxy(config.confluence.proxy.host, config.confluence.proxy.port, config.confluence.proxy.schema ?: 'http')
+    }
     //try to get an existing page
     localPage = parseBody(pageBody, anchors, pageAnchors)
 
diff --git a/src/docs/manual/03_task_publishToConfluence.adoc b/src/docs/manual/03_task_publishToConfluence.adoc
index 5f0610362..d7c18d8b4 100755
--- a/src/docs/manual/03_task_publishToConfluence.adoc
+++ b/src/docs/manual/03_task_publishToConfluence.adoc
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ e.g. you can do things like `credentials = "user:${new File("/home/me/apitoken")
 extraPageContent::
 If you need to prefix you pages with a warning that this is generated content - this is the right place.
 
+proxy::
+If you need to provide a proxy to access Confluence, you may set a map with keys `host` (e.g. `'my.proxy.com'`), `port` (e.g. `'1234'`) and `schema` (e.g. `'http'`) of your proxy.
+
 .configuration
 .publishToConfluence.gradle
 [source,groovy]