Basic SOCKS proxy support

[mufeedali]

Fixes #192

Based on Lollypop's handling of the same. Unfortunately, this isn't exactly ideal. As discussed in #115 (comment) previously, py-googletrans and httpx do not properly support proxies. But for now, this should hopefully work.

[mufeedali]

I had to do this because something kept reading it from the environment variable and did not allow the app to work. But from my experimentation using NetHogs, the proxy seems to work just fine, so it should be okay.

[bellegarde-c]

Does not work here (timeout on search). Looks like settings variable is mandatory.

Tried but your right, something manually tries to understand proxy env :(

[mufeedali]

I see :(

Too bad. Well... proper proxy support and a bunch of other large changes will be coming eventually, so maybe we will have to put this off until then.

[mufeedali]

For now, converting to draft and will experiment again soon if possible. But unfortunately... it works for me now. So I don't know how to proceed 😅 .

[bellegarde-c]

Will try to debug

[mufeedali]

That would be awesome! Thanks!

[mufeedali]

@bellegarde-c if you find time to, could you test to see if this works as expected in a real-world test? (I could only test with the experimental setup you suggested 😅)

[bellegarde-c]

Ok, tried this code:

import httpx
import socks
import socket

socks.set_default_proxy(socks.SOCKS5, "127.0.0.1", 8080)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket

URL = 'http://ifconfig.me/ip'

with httpx.Client() as client:
    resp = client.get(URL)
    print(resp.text)

But fails with httpx.ConnectError: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol

So until httpx socks support is out encode/httpx#203 and gtrans add support for it, we can't do more IMO.

[bellegarde-c]

Hmm, or it's because IPV6 is disabled on my laptop.

[mufeedali]

Ok, tried this code (...)

Interesting... This works for me until I enable the proxy in GNOME settings. When I do that, httpx tries to use the environment variable and fails irrespective of it is socks4 or just socks.

[rigens]

There is a fairly stable 3rd party SOCKS implementation: httpx-socks

[mufeedali]

There is a fairly stable 3rd party SOCKS implementation: httpx-socks

We use httpx through py-googletrans for Google Translate. So we can't implement this.

[mufeedali]

Closing this because transition to libsoup should solve this and is being done in #235 .