I am trying to figure out how to send data to a server through a proxy. I was hoping this would be possible through tor but being as tor uses SOCKS it apparently isn't possible with httplib (correct me if I am wrong)
This is what I have right now
import httplib
con = httplib.HTTPConnection("google.com")
con.set_tunnel(proxy, port)
con.send("Sent Stuff")
The problem is, it seems to freeze when the tunnel is set. Thanks for your help.
If you want to use http proxy, it should be like this:
If you want to use SOCKS proxy, you can use SocksiPy as in this question: How can I use a SOCKS 4/5 proxy with urllib2?
As a follow-up to Khue Vu's answer, here's a complete example, the details of getting this working with a SOCKS proxy were more complex than expected.
First install PySocks with:
Then you need to manually set up your SOCKS proxy after instantiating your HTTPConnection and informing it that it's going to be using a proxy:
Note that the imports above are python3.x
Looks like the correct answer is:
http://bugs.python.org/issue11448#msg130413