Socks proxy support

[artemklevtsov]

Hi,

It would be nice to add a socks proxy support to use with TOR for example.

[artemklevtsov]

Now as workaround opts can be used.

[sckott]

thanks @artemklevtsov

will have a look. can you show me how you do it with curl options? and what kind of "support" are you looking for?

[artemklevtsov]

I tried redirect all requests through local TOR daemon (socks://localhost:9050). Seems your proxy helper now support only http proxy. I passed correct proxy url with opts arg when initialize HttpClient.

[sckott]

is there a way I can locally test or send through a public tor or so?

[sckott]

note to self - in python https://stackoverflow.com/a/33875657/1091766

[artemklevtsov]

Thank you for the quick reply.

You should start tor-daemon before.

Now works:

cl2 <- crul::HttpClient$new(
    url = "http://ifconfig.co",
    opts = list(proxy = "socks5://localhost:9050")
)
cl2$get("ip")$parse("utf8")

But don't work:

cl3 <- crul::HttpClient$new(
    url = "http://ifconfig.co",
    proxies = crul::proxy(url = "socks5://localhost:9050")
)
cl3$get("ip")$parse("utf8")

[sckott]

thanks. do you ever use auth (e.g.,, simple auth, user:pwd) with tor?

[sckott]

can you try again after reinstalling. this should work:

crul::HttpClient$new(
    url = "http://ifconfig.co",
    proxies = proxy(url = "socks5://localhost:9050", auth = NULL)
)

have to set auth = NULL for now. if people use auth, i need to sort out how thats done, but if people don't have auth to a tor proxy then we can do proxy(url = "socks5://localhost:9050") and internally remove the auth bits