Proxy websocket connections through socks proxy

[justinmoon]

I'm using your excellent crates for websocket server and client. Any tips on how to proxy client connections over tor through a socks proxy?

For example, this is how it's done with reqwest.

[niklasad1]

Yeah, you are correct it's not possible currently.

For the clients I would be happy to accept PRs regarding proxy connections (not sure how difficult it's to support though...)

For the websocket server "soon enough" when #863 is merged then it would possible to define your own middleware to provide that similar to https://github.com/paritytech/jsonrpsee/blob/master/examples/examples/http_proxy_middleware.rs

[flipchan]

@niklasad1 is socks5 proxies supported for ws connections? or is this a future feature?

[niklasad1]

@flipchan

Sorry, it's not supported but it could be if we decide to accept #1162.

[elsirion]

For anyone interested, I did build a proof-of-concept for the pure socks support some time ago elsirion@8ec1b4a

But I much prefer #1162 since it's more generic and will support in-process procying with e.g. arti.

[Polkadot-Forum]

This issue has been mentioned on Polkadot Forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.polkadot.network/t/bringing-more-onions-into-polkadot/4358/1

[flipchan]

@niklasad1 I created an RFP for this, as we would really think it would be useful for the Uptest project, Squeezing my thumbs that a third party dev will pick it up :)

[oleonardolima]

@niklasad1 I created an RFP for this, as we would really think it would be useful for the Uptest project, Squeezing my thumbs that a third party dev will pick it up :)

@flipchan Thanks for mentioning it, I got curious and I'll take a look at it.

[niklasad1]

Closed by #1168