[Twisted-Python] txsocksx 1.13.0.0 released (SOCKS clients for Twisted)

Glyph glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Sat Oct 5 20:46:56 MDT 2013


On Oct 5, 2013, at 6:18 PM, Aaron Gallagher <_ at habnab.it> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> txsocksx <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/txsocksx> 1.13.0.0 has been
> released--the first stable 1.x release.

Cool!

> This version has full implementations of client endpoints which wrap
> client endpoints and perform SOCKS 4, 4a, or 5 proxy negotiation.
> 
> Additionally, txsocksx comes with support code to allow HTTP requests to
> be made over a SOCKS connection using Twisted's Agent API, and another
> wrapper endpoint for performing TLS negotiation after proxy negotiation.
> (The TLS wrapper endpoint will eventually land in twisted as a part of
> <http://tm.tl/5642>, but are experimentally in txsocksx for now.)

Always great to get some real-world usage while these things make their way through code review :-).

> Documentation is available on ReadTheDocs, including examples and an API
> reference: <http://txsocksx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>.

I'm super happy to see such widespread use of the endpoint API :-).  It looks like there's no endpoint string parser plugin, though; any chance you'll be looking into adding that in a future release?

-glyph


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