Web Proxy Support

[Former user]

Please add proxy support.

I am requesting support for a HTTP proxy so I can download behind a proxy.

It should be able to use well-known environment variables like $http_proxy to resolve proxy details.

[delx]

Have you tried the SOCKS proxy support? It may suit your needs.

[yetwaffle]

Do you have an example of how to use the SOCKS proxy with webdl?

I’m somewhat lost.

[delx]

I’ve not used it myself, it was added by another contributor. However from looking at the code in autosocks.py I guess you should set SOCKS_SERVER.

Now that I look at it this probably won’t work for external tools like streamlink. So maybe it doesn’t work at all anymore?

[yetwaffle]

Hmm, yeah, I don’t think it works anymore. :(

I know little about python, but will see if I can hardcode in my proxy settings for streamlink, maybe that’ll kinda “work”.

Edit:

yeah, seems the proxy is not needed (yet) for the pre streamlink stuff, just adding in the --http-proxy + proxy URL in the common.py file did the trick for me.