[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavformat/http, tls: honor http_proxy command line variable for HTTPS

[Martin Storsjö]

Hej,

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Moritz Barsnick wrote:

> Hej Martin,
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 22:05:39 +0300, Martin Storsjö wrote:
>
>> Even if you do e.g. a plain tls socket (or rtmps, or whatever), you may
>> want to do the tls connection through a proxy server (be that a socks
>> proxy or http proxy).
>
> Actually, I forget that an HTTP proxy with CONNECT support cn transport
> any plain socket. I will amend documentation to doc/*.texi.
>
>> For the case of rtmps, if you pass the http_proxy option, it should be
>> passed to the rtmps protocol, which doesn't have such an option, from
>> where it's passed along in the options dictionary down until the tls
>> protocol consumes it.
>
> So you're saying it already works for rtmps, nothing needs to be
> changed there? Fine.

I didn't test it, but from browsing the code, it looks like it would work.

// Martin