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Tue, 29 April 2014 08:02

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Are there any plans to make PAHO proxy aware so that MQTT messages can cross an enterprise firewall to brokers hosted in the internet?
Thanks, Walt

Re: Proxy aware [message #1321892 is a reply to message #1321639]

Tue, 29 April 2014 11:11

Eclipse User

Hi Walt,

we don't have plans for that right now. But I was just wondering this morning what other requirements there might be.

I don't have a good understanding of what making a client library "proxy aware" would entail. Can you expand?

Do you have an interest in a particular client (Java, C/C++, Python Javascript)?

Ian

Re: Proxy aware [message #1323291 is a reply to message #1321892]

Wed, 30 April 2014 03:25

Eclipse User

Hi Ian,
I'm interested to have this capability in the java client and like to configure the proxy details (e.g. SOCKS4/5, HTTP, and port) when defining a client connection.

For illustration purpose see for example how this is solved with the SMACK XMPP client:

www.igniterealtime.org/builds/smack/docs/latest/javadoc/org/jivesoftware/smack/proxy/ProxyInfo.html

Thanks,
Walt

Re: Proxy aware [message #1323524 is a reply to message #1323291]

Wed, 30 April 2014 05:53

Eclipse User

Does the use of an HTTP proxy imply WebSockets?

This document: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/net/proxies.html
says that you should be able to set a socks proxy with system properties (see section 2.4).

I realize that this is a setting for the whole JVM, so I'll add a feature request to our plans.

Re: Proxy aware [message #1552878 is a reply to message #1323524]

Thu, 08 January 2015 06:25

Eclipse User

Hi Ian,
i want to know how to add and where to add proxy settings in paho-mqtt.

I guess my organization's proxy settings are blocking the request, so please guide me so that MQTT messages can cross an enterprise firewall to broker on internet.

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Re: Proxy aware [message #1553720 is a reply to message #1552878]

Thu, 08 January 2015 16:49

Eclipse User

Hi Saurabh,

If you have a socks proxy then you could follow the link posted in this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27834468/how-to-add-proxy-settings-in-paho-mqtt

If you have an http proxy then you've almost certainly got no hope, unless your proxy supports websockets and you configure your broker to support it. The Paho Python client won't work with websockets though.

Regards,

Roger

Re: Proxy aware [message #1755403 is a reply to message #1553720]

Thu, 02 March 2017 18:56

Eclipse User

I'm interested in this, is there any development since 2013? specifically using a SOCKS5 proxy.

links to documentation?
links to issue/feature requests?

Re: Proxy aware [message #1756334 is a reply to message #1755403]

Wed, 15 March 2017 10:12

Eclipse User

Hi,
I had the same problem; I wanted to connect with the Java MQTT Paho version to a public MQTT Broker through a Socks5 Proxy.

I solved the problem by using the following SocketFactory: https://github.com/greenaddress/GreenBits/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/greenaddress/greenbits/spv/Socks5SocketFactory.java

Here is a example code snippet for using Socks5 Proxy with MQTT Paho:

String brokerUrl = "iot.eclipse.org"
String proxyHost = "localhost";
String proxyPort = "1080";
MqttClient mqttClient = new MqttClient(brokerUrl, MqttClient.generateClientId());
MqttConnectOptions conOptions = new MqttConnectOptions();
Socks5SocketFactory factory = new Socks5SocketFactory(proxyHost, proxyPort);
conOptions.setSocketFactory(factory);
this.mqttClient.connect(conOptions);

Might not be the most beautiful solution but worked for me. Smile

Re: Proxy aware [message #1805271 is a reply to message #1321639]

Wed, 10 April 2019 20:32

Eclipse User

What is the status of this in 2019? My company uses an http proxy, and I want to be able to connect to an external endpoint from those servers using paho. It isn't clear to me if this is currently possible.

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