Proxy support?

[pjv]

How hard would it be to make gossip proxy aware?

My use-case is wanting to run gossip through local SOCKS5 / TOR proxies.

maybe helpful? : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63992487/is-there-a-way-to-connect-through-a-proxy-while-using-websocket-in-rust

…or not - just re-read that SO and realized there was no solution in there.

[mikedilger]

If you run gossip on whonix everything goes through TOR. That can be done today.

But to honor a SOCKS5/TOR proxy directly, I think tungstenite would need to support it first. I could be wrong, maybe there is a way we can point tungstenite at the proxy without it being proxy-aware, but I don't think so. Would have to dig into SOCK5 to figure that one out.

[pjv]

Ya, hoping to avoid the overhead of spinning up a VM on my mac just to run gossip on it. I proxy a lot of different apps in various ways, but gossip is somehow ducking under my tools and i can’t get ahold of its networking.

[pjv]

couple things i googled up…

https://docs.rs/async-socks5/0.5.1/async_socks5/fn.connect.html

https://lib.rs/crates/ws-tool

[pjv]

this might be a full solution to adding proxy support for tungstenite: https://chuxi.github.io/posts/websocket/

some more stuff from the interwebs

snapview/tungstenite-rs#55

snapview/tungstenite-rs#177 (see especially snapview/tungstenite-rs#177 (comment))

websockets-rs/rust-websocket#258 (comment)

[mikedilger]

I'm not motivated to push forward on this right now as I've got so many higher priority things to do. But I would merge a sensible PR. And I like keeping this issue open so I can eventually get around to it.

[pjv]

i understand. If time opens up enough for me to take on learning rust, i may take a crack at it. likely you’ll get back to it someday before i do.

[mikedilger]

I think it is safest to isolate the entire gossip process, than for gossip to try to adjust all its network activity (I might miss some code). I recommend the following on ArchLinux, and with that I'm going to close this issue.

$ sudo systemctl enable tor.service
$ sudo systemctl start tor.service
$ sudo pacman -S torsocks
$ cargo build --release && torsocks ./target/release/gossip