Okhttp: Authentication for SOCKS5 proxy?

[adithyaphilip]

Does OkHttp support authentication for SOCKS proxies as of now? I looked into the documentation (http://square.github.io/okhttp/javadoc/com/squareup/okhttp/Authenticator.html) and it looks like this is just for HTTP proxies?

[swankjesse]

Yep, exactly. Actually our SOCKS support is all pretty limited. Right now we're relying on the SOCKS implementation that's built into the JVM; but we have been tempted to do our own in the application layer. Are you interested in spending a week or two to contribute code?

[adithyaphilip]

Yup, I'd be glad to. I guess the

        out.write(NO_AUTH);
        out.write(USER_PASSW)

bit from https://github.com/square/okhttp/issues/1359 should be most relevant. How exactly would I go about it?

[swankjesse]

You'll need to implement SOCKS completely first, so we can stop relying on the built-in proxy that Java gives us. That'll require a mechanism to test your implementation also, kind of like MockWebServer. Once that's all in, then authentication should just slide in!

[drallieiv]

I tried using what https://github.com/fengyouchao/sockslib did and it seems to work.
with a custom factory that returns sockslib.client.SocksSocket

[vasilevich]

@drallieiv I would appreciate it if you could please add a code example of how to use sockslib for socks5 + authentication.
Thanks!

[kortov]

Maybe this will help https://stackoverflow.com/a/56422925/9466638

[yschimke]

Won't fix. We have had multiple Socks PRs that have languished.