Feature Request: HTTP proxy

[targence]

Hi! Please add ability run SOCK and HTTP proxy at the same time.

[riobard]

Any idea why? This project is under the umbrella shadowsocks, so HTTP proxy is kinda beyond the scope.

[daciwei]

Hi

HTTP proxy is needed on client side, because not all apps support SOCKS.
If we are talking about apps in terminal, there almost no apps which supports SOCKS.
I use command line apps for development a lot.

I use ShadowsocksX-NG as client.
https://github.com/shadowsocks/ShadowsocksX-NG
There is option HTTP proxy , it's very handy.

So I think it's not beyond the scope at all. HTTP proxy on client side is needed if you want to use not only browser.

[riobard]

If we are talking about apps in terminal, there almost no apps which supports SOCKS.

This is incorrect. Lots of terminal utilities support SOCKS, e.g. curl.

I use ShadowsocksX-NG as client.

If ShadowsocksX-NG already provides HTTP proxy, why not use it?

[daciwei]

This is incorrect. Lots of terminal utilities support SOCKS, e.g. curl

for example docker needs HTTP proxy

If ShadowsocksX-NG already provides HTTP proxy, why not use it?

I am using it now.

But for some situation comand line client will be more usefull. Not all hardware has a GUI :)
Now for that kind situations in addition to SS I have to use polipo proxy to convert SOCKS to HTTP.

If you develop both server and slient side, HTTP proxy will be very handy, less additional apps required.

[riobard]

According to moby/moby#5989 (comment) you can use SOCKS proxy with Docker.

I guess the question is actually what applications only support HTTP proxy but not SOCKS proxy?

[daciwei]

go get ... not working with socks as I know... (or I don't know how)

Docker on MacOs not using SOCK proxy (at least for me).
I saw this commit before and tried lots of times to make it work... but only HTTP(S)

Official docker app for mac even don't have other proxy options...

[riobard]

What if you choose "Use system proxy" and set the system proxy to SOCKS? Will it work?

[daciwei]

unfortunately also not working.

So I use HTTP proxy a lot... :)

[riobard]

I see. It seems HTTP proxy is still necessary. I'll consider adding it next.

[daciwei]

@riobard Yes, HTTP will be very handy. I would really appreciate if you can and it to development plans.

[bigtan]

https://github.com/bigtan/cow

I just give go-ss2 a http proxy.

[helphi]

@riobard what's the progress？

[riobard]

Currently not planned.

[leewi9]

https://github.com/snail007/goproxy

maybe you can try this, or refer to this

https://superuser.com/questions/423563/convert-http-requests-to-socks5

[mgttt]

anydesk need http proxy only

[JimLee1996]

https://github.com/bigtan/cow

I just give go-ss2 a http proxy.

@bigtan Hi, I wanna implement a http listener in go-ss2 client too, and this repo is gone. Could you please re-open it for reference? Thank you.

[BigSully]

You can compile the http proxy support yourself with this implementation.