Frida setup.py doesn't honor https_proxy

[doegox]

setup.py is querying for Frida prebuilds via xmlrpclib but xmlrpclib does not honor https_proxy:
https://github.com/frida/frida-python/blob/master/src/setup.py#L68

It's a problem similar to old versions of pip, cf pypa/pip#1104 .

One possible solution as you're already using urllib to fetch the actual files (and urllib is aware of https_proxy) is to use it as transport for xmlrpclib.

This snippet works with and without proxy, in python2 and python3:

import os
import sys
try:
    from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
except:
    from urllib2 import urlopen, Request
try:
    import xmlrpclib
except ImportError:
    import xmlrpc.client as xmlrpclib
    

class UrllibTransport(xmlrpclib.Transport):
    def __init__(self, *args, **argd):
        xmlrpclib.Transport.__init__(self, *args, **argd)
    def request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0):
        self.verbose=verbose
        scheme = 'https'
        url = '%(scheme)s://%(host)s%(handler)s' % locals()
        req = Request(url, data=request_body, headers={'Content-Type':'text/xml'})
        fp = urlopen(req)
        return self.parse_response(fp)
client = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("https://pypi.python.org/pypi", transport=UrllibTransport())


urls = client.release_urls("frida", "8.2.3")
urls = [url for url in urls if url['python_version'] != 'source']
print('\n'.join([u['url'] for u in urls]))

[oleavr]

@doegox Thanks a lot! Your fix is now available in Frida 9.0.8.