Support Socks4/5 Proxy

[Lekanich]

Can you add support socks proxy for netty provider? It was be wonderfull.

[slandelle]

Contribution welcome

[Lekanich]

Ok, I will make a new fork and write.

[Lekanich]

What java version I must use for this? (JAVA 6, 7, 8?)

[jfarcand]

If it's for 2.0, you can use 7. If for 1.8.x, use 6.

[Lekanich]

What branch is 2.0?

[slandelle]

master

[Lekanich]

@slandelle Thanks

[slandelle]

@Lekanich Well, you're the one who deserves thanks.
Referencing your Netty WIP: netty/netty#2563

[bchazalet]

I am interesting in this too and will be keen on contributing.

What's the status of it and is there a wip branch where I can have a look at the current progress and help?

[slandelle]

Hi @bchazalet,

Honestly, I have no idea where SOCKS support in Netty is now. From @trustin's comment here, I'm not sure it has support for client side sockets yet.
If you're interested in contributing, the best way would probably be to first get in touch with the Netty people and make the feature happen there. Then, we'll be able to wrap it in AHC.

[bchazalet]

thanks for the info @slandelle

[jeffpeiyt]

ah @bchazalet ... we need this too... as we use ssh tunneling with dynamic forward to local port

[jeffpeiyt]

@bchazalet , after a year.... does netty support this now?