Add option to use a proxy for outgoing (search engine) requests.

Cargo.toml

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.11.24", default-features = false, features = [
  "rustls-tls",
  "brotli",
  "gzip",
+ "socks"
 ] }
 tokio = { version = "1.32.0", features = [
  "rt-multi-thread",

src/config/parser.rs

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use crate::handler::{file_path, FileType};
 use crate::models::parser_models::{AggregatorConfig, RateLimiter, Style};
 use log::LevelFilter;
 use mlua::Lua;
+use reqwest::Proxy;
 use std::{collections::HashMap, fs, thread::available_parallelism};
 
 /// A named struct which stores the parsed config file options.
@@ -48,6 +49,9 @@ pub struct Config {
  pub tcp_connection_keep_alive: u8,
  /// It stores the pool idle connection timeout in seconds.
  pub pool_idle_connection_timeout: u8,
+
+ /// Url of the proxy to use for outgoing requests.
+ pub proxy: Option<Proxy>,
 }
 
 impl Config {
@@ -118,6 +122,15 @@ impl Config {
  _ => parsed_cet,
  };
 
+ let proxy_str = globals.get::<_, String>("proxy")?;
+ let proxy = match Proxy::all(proxy_str) {
+ Ok(proxy) => Some(proxy),
+ Err(_) => {
+ log::error!("Invalid proxy url, defaulting to no proxy.");
+ None
+ }
+ };
+
  Ok(Config {
  port: globals.get::<_, u16>("port")?,
  binding_ip: globals.get::<_, String>("binding_ip")?,
@@ -148,6 +161,7 @@ impl Config {
  safe_search,
  #[cfg(any(feature = "redis-cache", feature = "memory-cache"))]
  cache_expiry_time,
+ proxy,
  })
  }
 }

src/results/aggregator.rs

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ pub async fn aggregate(
  safe_search: u8,
 ) -> Result<SearchResults, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
  let client = CLIENT.get_or_init(|| {
- ClientBuilder::new()
+ let mut cb = ClientBuilder::new()
  .timeout(Duration::from_secs(config.request_timeout as u64)) // Add timeout to request to avoid DDOSing the server
  .pool_idle_timeout(Duration::from_secs(
  config.pool_idle_connection_timeout as u64,
@@ -86,9 +86,13 @@ pub async fn aggregate(
  .https_only(true)
  .gzip(true)
  .brotli(true)
- .http2_adaptive_window(config.adaptive_window)
- .build()
- .unwrap()
+ .http2_adaptive_window(config.adaptive_window);
+
+ if config.proxy.is_some() {
+ cb = cb.proxy(config.proxy.clone().unwrap());
+ }
+
+ cb.build().unwrap()
  });
 
  let user_agent: &str = random_user_agent();
@@ -247,6 +251,7 @@ pub async fn filter_with_lists(
 
  Ok(())
 }
+
 /// Sorts SearchResults by relevance score.
 /// <br> sort_unstable is used as its faster,stability is not an issue on our side.
 /// For reasons why, check out [`this`](https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1884-unstable-sort.html)
@@ -262,6 +267,7 @@ fn sort_search_results(results: &mut [SearchResult]) {
  .unwrap_or(Ordering::Less)
  })
 }
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
  use super::*;
@@ -291,8 +297,8 @@ mod tests {
  url: "https://www.rust-lang.org/".to_owned(),
  description: "A systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.".to_owned(),
  engine: smallvec!["Google".to_owned(), "DuckDuckGo".to_owned()],
- relevance_score:0.0
- },)
+ relevance_score: 0.0,
+ }, )
  );
 
  // Create a temporary file with regex patterns
@@ -342,7 +348,7 @@ mod tests {
  url: "https://www.rust-lang.org/".to_owned(),
  description: "A systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.".to_owned(),
  engine: smallvec!["Google".to_owned(), "DuckDuckGo".to_owned()],
- relevance_score:0.0
+ relevance_score: 0.0,
  },
  ));
 

websurfx/config.lua

@@ -73,3 +73,5 @@ upstream_search_engines = {
  Mojeek = false,
  Bing = false,
 } -- select the upstream search engines from which the results should be fetched.
+
+proxy = "" -- Proxy to send outgoing requests through. Set to empty string to disable.