hpts(http-proxy-to-socks) is a nodejs tool to convert SOCKS proxy into http proxy.
Many clients support setting up http proxy to speed up network requests and for sometimes only SOCKS proxy is available to you. SOCKS proxy supports TCP so that it's possible to convert those requests from http proxy into SOCKS protocol. In this way, you can still keep the goodness provided by your SOCKS proxy(e.g. encryption).
Make sure your Node.js version is greater than 4.
npm install -g http-proxy-to-socks
hpts -s 127.0.0.1:1080 -p 8080
Dockerfile
FROM node:slim
RUN npm install -g http-proxy-to-socks
ENV SOCKS_HOST=127.0.0.1:1080
EXPOSE 8080
CMD hpts -l 0.0.0.0 -p 8080 -s $SOCKS_HOST
docker build -t hpts
docker run -p 8080 -e SOCKS_HOST=127.0.0.1:1080 hpts
This will start a process listening on 8080 as a HTTP proxy. It will convert HTTP requests into SOCKS requests and send them to port 1080. Please make sure your socks service is available at the corresponding port. If you run the process inside Docker, make sure, that parameter -l 0.0.0.0 is specified, otherwise port mapping won't work.
Other options:
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-s, --socks [socks] specify your socks proxy host, default: 127.0.0.1:1080
-p, --port [port] specify the listening port of http proxy server, default: 8080
-l, --host [host] specify the listening host of http proxy server, default: 127.0.0.1
-c, --config [config] read configs from file in json format
--level [level] log level, vals: info, error
You can specify a json config file with -c:
{
"socks": "127.0.0.1:1080",
"port": 8080
}MIT