Proxy support

[davy39]

Hi,

My ISP is blocking my announces to tracker's http and udp... After a quick read of the code, it looks like bittorent-tracker would be the first one to be updated in order to support poxies.

Would it be possible to modify requestHttp and requestUdp for them to use proxy options that could be set in opts ?
Like in libtorrent-rasterbar, those options could be type(http,https, sock4, sock5), hostname, port, username and password.
Of course, requestUdp will only use sock5 proxies.

Thank you very much for your work !

[feross]

Pull request welcome.

[davy39]

OK ;)
Actually, I'm quite a novice with programming, specially with java, but maybe I'll try to study more deeply your code. Could be a good exercise...
I'll come back here if I've any question.
Thanks

[FREEZX]

I was thinking of doing this, but i have zero experience with low level networking.
I found this library:
https://www.npmjs.org/package/socks-client
Do you think it could work?

[feross]

Have you considered just using a VPN or SOCKS proxy configured at the OS level? Would that work?

[FREEZX]

I'm trying to implement proxy on the application level for a torrent client.

[feross]

I see – okay. Well, if it doesn't add too much complexity, then I would accept a PR which added SOCKS proxy support into this and the other bittorrent-* modules.

[feross]

This issue is stale. Feel free to open a new issue if you want proxy support.