Add support for SOCKS proxy to clients and broker

[ralight]

migrated from Bugzilla #425939
status ASSIGNED severity enhancement in component Mosquitto for ---
Reported in version unspecified on platform PC
Assigned to: Roger Light

On 2014-01-16 17:16:04 -0500, Roger Light wrote:

As suggested by Henry Bruce on the mosquitto-users mailing list: https://lists.launchpad.net/mosquitto-users/msg00434.html

The client libraries should optionally offer the ability to use a SOCKS proxy. This should also be offered for bridge connections on the broker.

On 2014-04-05 08:19:30 -0400, Nicholas Humfrey wrote:

I have got around this using the socat multipurpose relay:
http:https://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/

socat -d -d \
  tcp-listen:1883,su=nobody,fork,reuseaddr \
  SOCKS4:socks-gw.internal.example.com:test.mosquitto.org:1883,socksport=1085

It is also possible to get wrappers, that exec a child process.

I would question the value of making the mosquito codebase more complex with this feature.