asyncore sockets and proxy

[Rune Hansen]

Ah, I'm busted. I've fully demonstrated that I have no idea of what I'm even 
asking for :-)
To be quite honest, I do not know what kind of proxy my potentional users 
might have. Some users will be behind a firewall/proxy where all traffic 
must go through the proxy.
What I do know is that I'm using TCP sockets 
(asyncore.create_socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM))
..
and that I so far haven't been able to dig up any information on how to make 
the sockets use a proxy.
I would be very grateful for any help or information you could give.

regards

/rune

Kragen Sitaker wrote:

> Rune Hansen <rune.hansen at viventus.no> writes:
>> I've got a streaming server/client setup programmed with asycore. The
>> client connects to the server on port 10002 and holds the connection
>> forever. This is all well until one introduces a proxy...
>> Is it possible to make such a connetion through a proxy?
> 
> Depends on the proxy.  Can you be more specific?  I guess you're using
> TCP?  Is it an HTTP proxy?  Tends to work pretty well with HTTP
> proxies, but sometimes they buffer up several kilobytes and won't
> flush it until they receive more.
> 
>> Is it possible to configure asyncore sockets to use a proxy for the
>> connection?
> 
> A Socks proxy, a term proxy, a NAT, an HTTP proxy, or what?