I'm using twisted.web.xmlrpc.Proxy to connect to an XMLRPC service. Unfortunately there are situations in which I have to go through an HTTP proxy, yet there doesn't seem to be an option for this (and looking at the code, the connection to the remote server is quite "harwired").
Replying to myself... The following seems to work (I didn't test with HTTPS) :
import urlparse import twisted.web.xmlrpc as xmlrpc
class ProxiedXMLRPC: """ A Proxy for making remote XML-RPC calls accross an HTTP proxy.
Pass the URL of the remote XML-RPC server to the constructor, as well as the proxy host and port.
Use proxy.callRemote('foobar', *args) to call remote method 'foobar' with *args. """
def __init__(self, reactor, url, proxy_host, proxy_port): self.reactor = reactor self.url = url self.proxy_host = proxy_host self.proxy_port = proxy_port parts = urlparse.urlparse(url) self.remote_host = parts[1] self.secure = parts[0] == 'https'
def callRemote(self, method, *args): factory = xmlrpc.QueryFactory(self.url, self.remote_host, method, *args) if self.secure: from twisted.internet import ssl self.reactor.connectSSL(self.proxy_host, self.proxy_port, factory, ssl.ClientContextFactory()) else: self.reactor.connectTCP(self.proxy_host, self.proxy_port, factory) return factory.deferred
Regards
Antoine.