I'm using the RSelenium package to connect to firefox, but I wish to do it via a socks proxy.
In Python, this is achievable using the webdriver package and setting the preferences of the FirefoxProfile, e.g.
profile=webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference('network.proxy.socks', x.x.x.x)
profile.set_preference('network.proxy.socks_port', ****)
browser=webdriver.Firefox(profile)
However, I can't find how to try set the proxy to be a socks proxy, or to set the socks port in RSelenium. I've tried setting it using the RCurl options, as follows
options(RCurlOptions = list(proxy = "socks5h://x.x.x.x:****"))
but this gives me the following error message
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) :
Can't complete SOCKS5 connection to 0.0.0.0:0. (1)
Has anyone successfully connected to Firefox using a socks proxy using R code?
I am using version 1.3.5 of RSelenium and version 28.0 of Firefox.