do you plan to implement SOCKS support?

[senid231]

maybe we can use SOCKSSocket instead of Socket or implement it (looks like it is not so difficult)

[reidmorrison]

After the refactor in master this should not be hard to do at all.

The hardest part is writing the tests. It would need a test server in Ruby that it can run tests against, including failover. Or figure out a test setup we can run in Travis.

As a last resort we could mock/stub the low level calls for testing. I did find https://github.com/rascov/RubySOCKS that could help.

Any ideas on how we can test this, or do you have any Ruby examples?

[senid231]

As first step i want to rewrite tests on rspec.
i think we can use RubySOCKS server for testing

[reidmorrison]

The re-factoring of master has settled down and we can now look at additional support such as SOCKSSocket.

Do you have any thoughts on how we can specify the server host name in the Hash of options that is supplied to the initializer?

client = Net::TCPClient.new(servers: ['server1:2000', 'server2:2000'])

Should we specify the socks server for each "server"?

client = Net::TCPClient.new(servers: ['server1(proxy1:2340):2000', 'server2(proxy1:2340):2000'])

Or specify the Socks server for all servers?

client = Net::TCPClient.new(
  servers: ['server1:2000', 'server2:2000'],
  socks_server: 'proxy1:2340'
)

[reidmorrison]

The following should now work, please test it and let me know if it works.

client = Net::TCPClient.new(
  server:       'server1:2000',
  proxy_server: 'proxy1:2340'
)

[kornate]

Hey @reidmorrison! Thank you for the awesome tool. know it's been 5 years and this has gone untested, but it doesn't work.

Can you think of an easy fix, without rewriting the server param implementation to split host and port?

With your example:

from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.4/gems/net_tcp_client-2.2.0/lib/net/tcp_client/tcp_client.rb:564:in initialize'

If I require 'resolv-replace':

from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.4/lib/ruby/2.7.0/resolv-replace.rb:14:in rescue in getaddress'
Caused by Resolv::ResolvError: no address for 1.73.63.15:80
from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.7.4/lib/ruby/2.7.0/resolv.rb:94:in getaddress'```

[reidmorrison]

Any takers to help create a pull request to solve the above issue?