Profanity: Allow communication through proxy servers

[boothj5]

A few request have been made to allow profanity to proxy through HTTP etc for use in the workplace.

[brzezinki]

I think maybe socks should be included alrso, right now I am using proxychains for this and it works great.

The thing is in pidgin for example libpurple supports the proxy protocol, not the client itself.

[dotoole]

Another way to tunnel Profanity through a proxy is to use tsocks.
http://alexborisov.org/tunnel-your-apps-via-ssh-with-tsocks/
This is working quite well for me so far.

I agree though, would be nice to have SOCKS proxy support native in profanity.

[temerick]

I would also be interested in this feature

[xeverse]

wtf no proxy facility what-so-ever?

[jubalh]

Yeah I also hate it when people offer their free time to create free software and then don't implement everything and not perfectly and not immediately..

[xeverse]

Yet they supposedly do
it because they can; the path
coz i hope they are passionate
about this & that & warm
fuzzy feeling of course..

when people offer their free as in freedom time to create FOSS and
then don't implement _everything_ and not _perfectly_ and not _immediately_..

it's just proxy is
such basic functionality
so astounding not to see it &
it's been almost 5y -- this thread.

[jubalh]

it's just proxy is
such basic functionality

Please create a pull request then.

[mdosch]

If you want proxy for using TOR:

cat /usr/local/bin/chat
#! /bin/bash
torify /usr/local/bin/profanity

Works well enough for me.