bitinn / kneesocks

Put some nice SOCKS on your HTTP only program

kneesocks

Put some nice SOCKS on your HTTP only program

Motivation

Driven by my burning desire to tunnel npm install requests through a SOCKSv5 proxy (eg. shadowsocks). Since npm only support HTTP proxy, I wrote this simple command line module to fire up a HTTP Proxy server, then use it to tunnel requests to my SOCKS proxy.

Features

• Supports HTTP and HTTPS requests
• Built-in DNS cache
• 150 loc, does nothing else

Install

npm install kneesocks --production -g

Usage

kneesocks port1 port2, eg. kneesocks 10001 10002

• port1 is the port your HTTP proxy server listen to on localhost.
• port2 is the port of your existing SOCKS proxy, also on localhost.

Then you can set your npm config:

• npm config set http http://127.0.0.1:10001
• npm config set https-proxy http://127.0.0.1:10001

To revert proxy config, use npm config delete http and npm config delete https-proxy.

To debug, use DEBUG=proxy kneesocks port1 port2

Limit

• Node v0.10+ required (Node v0.11+ preferred).
• Probably not the best solution for day-to-day browsing, due to lack of remote dns and websocket support.
• If you don't mind building binaries, use DeleGate or Polipo instead.

License

MIT

kneesocks's Issues

Support bower

I think it's a good ideal.

Stuck

It is stuck when run kneesocks port1 port2

update socksv5 version

lastest version of socksv5 is 0.0.6, which includes ipv6 dependency, which current 0.0.4 version is missing.

not work when node version >= v7

if node version >= v7 use normalizeArgs instead of normalizeConnectArgs

Support 0.0.0.0 ?

Support 0.0.0.0 ?

It come to an error when running

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/kneesocks/node_modules/socksv5/lib/client.js:225
var args = normalizeConnectArgs(arguments),
^

TypeError: normalizeConnectArgs is not a function
at Agent.exports.connect.exports.createConnection (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/kneesocks/node_modules/socksv5/lib/client.js:225:14)
at Agent.createSocket (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/kneesocks/node_modules/socksv5/lib/Agents.js:225:21)
at Agent.addRequest (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/kneesocks/node_modules/socksv5/lib/Agents.js:194:23)
at new ClientRequest (_http_client.js:159:16)
at Object.request (http.js:26:10)
at Server. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/kneesocks/lib/kneesocks.js:81:22)
at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
at Server.emit (events.js:191:7)
at HTTPParser.parserOnIncoming [as onIncoming] (_http_server.js:547:12)
at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:99:23)

Error in use

operating system:window 7 64
nodejs : v5.10.1

npm : 3.8.7

请问 npm 支持 Shadowsocks 的 PAC 模式吗？

Shadowsocks-windows 提供了 socks5 和 http 两个代理，所以在 Windows 上设置 npm 代理其实不成问题。

问题是，如果 npm 使用了淘宝源，这时候如果再用代理，就特别慢。而如果不用代理，一些需要从亚马逊 S3 云服务器上下载的 tarball 就会下载特别龟速。

所以，更希望 npm 能支持 Shadowsocks 的 PAC 模式~不知道有没有头绪？