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Re: [paho-dev] Firewall/proxy settings/capability for MQTT
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Have you tried using something like haproxy? This should work seamlessly. Let me know if you get stuck.
A little off topic but I'd love to see some develop a MQTT mode for haproxy that stores sessions based on clientId and user/password - then allows different output options based on the connection.
On 9/01/2015, at 11:01 am, Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> The best bet from what I've seen is a SOCKS proxy. http proxies just
> won't work. SOCKS proxies pass on basically any tcp connecions. I've
> got support for SOCKS5 proxies in mosquitto_pub and _sub in the
> mosquitto 1.4 branch if you want to give it a try.
>
> Running "ssh -D 1080 <host>" creates a socks proxy from localhost:1080
> to host, assuming you have port forwarding enabled.
>
> There are also ways of wrapping existing code/executables to provide
> socks support, but I've not got the links to hand.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Ian Craggs
> <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've had a couple of questions in the last year about proxy settings for
>> MQTT connections. There's one right now for the Python client on the Paho
>> forum
>> https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=720281&goto=1552878&#msg_1552878.
>>
>> I don't know too much about firewalls and proxies, so I'm looking for some
>> help here. Wouldn't the firewall/proxy have to be aware of MQTT to allow
>> this to work? Or will a socks proxy work? Would we have to add anything to
>> the existing client libraries?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Ian Craggs
>> icraggs@xxxxxxxxxx IBM United Kingdom
>> Paho Project Lead; Committer on Mosquitto
>>
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