Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
Dave schrieb:
I'm trying write some Python code to connect to Gmail from work, where
I need to direct all non-HTTP traffic through a proxy server.
AFAIK that's simply not possible.
It's possible.
Proxying that is not transparent is
only (for practical matters, there might be esoteric protocols that do
that as well) defined for HTTP.
Your mixing terms here.
So "I need to direct all non-HTTP traffic through a proxy server."
does not make much sense - at least to me.
The fact you don't know about it does not mean it does not make much
sense. ;-)
E.g. when using HTTPS the proxy does not see any HTTP traffic except the
HTTP CONNECT going to the proxy itself.
Do you have an example of an application (e.g. mailclient or such) that
*does* support the above scenario?
Widely used: OpenVPN, Netscape Communicator 4.x (at least for NNTPS - 10
years ago) etc.
The key-word to search for is HTTP CONNECT method. I'd try to implement
a file-like object for it and pass that into imap module. But the proxy
configuration may disallow it. Firewall admins also know the commonly
used freemail services.
Ciao, Michael.
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