Re: How to authenticate against the proxy with socket.http [SOLVED!]

["J.Jørgen von Bargen" <jjvb.primus@...>]

Hi folks

>>> LuaSocket just has no http proxy auth impl.
>> the http module is written in lua, so just change the source if you 
want that.
> Yes, I know and I'm also willing to try, but I was just asking, if
> someone already did it. (I'm just lazy and I've got enough more
> important things to do :-) )

Well, now I did it for myself. After taking a deep look into socket.http 
it really turned out to be quite simple:

In the function adjustheaders I've added a few lines:

    -- if we have proxy-authentication information, make a header entry 
for this
    local proxy = reqt.proxy or PROXY
    if proxy then
        proxy = url.parse(proxy)
        if proxy.user and proxy.password then
            lower["proxy-authorization"] =
                                "Basic " ..  (mime.b64(proxy.user .. 
":" .. proxy.password))
                end
        end

just before

    -- if we have authentication information, pass it along

and thats all. After fixing my test script to

local http = require("socket.http")
http.PROXY="http://username:password@proxyhost:8080/";
local a,b,c,d=http.request("http://www.example.com/";)

I managed to pass through our proxy. I'd suggest to add this block to 
the socket.http in the socket library, as it will do no harm to existing 
code

Regards Jørgen