Yes, you are correct I am worried about outbound connections. Like connecting to SMTP etc.
Is there a central location that I should patch in web2py to reroute all *outbound* connections through a proxy. I am aware of how to use python with a SOCKS proxy, but I would like to know where I should inside of web2py to make sure nobody connects to the internet without going through the proxy. - Art. On Oct 18, 5:06 pm, Dragonfyre13 <dragonfyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like you're more concerned with outbound connections. Checkout > these (I've only played briefly with the > first):http://socksipy.sourceforge.net/http://sourceforge.net/projects/pysocks/ > > Discussion > here:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2537726/using-urllib2-with-socks-p... > > Unless I'm missing something, and the socks proxy stuff isn't just > outbound connections. > > On Oct 18, 8:28 am, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Interesting problem. I assume you are working the web server level. > > That means Rocket. > > > If that is correct, you should contact the author of Rocket: > > >https://launchpad.net/rocket > > > look into gluon/rocket.py and the logic to handle SSL. There is a > > single socket and a it is wrapped into SSL. Hope this helps. > > > Keep me posted about your project. I am interested. > > > massimo > > > On Oct 18, 3:59 am, Arturo Filastò <a...@baculo.org> wrote: > > > > I am interested in having all connections made by web2py run through a > > > SOCKS4a proxy (in this specific case Tor). > > > > What is the best way to do so? Is there some function that is always > > > used by web2py for network connections that I can go and patch? > > > > It is also very important that the connections made by web2py don't > > > leak (e.x. DNS queries). > > > > Thanks for the tips.
