Socks over Unix Domain Socket

opener = socks.build_opener(socks_path="/var/lib/tor-shared/public.socket")
with opener.open("https://www.google.com/") as fp:
    assert fp.code == 200
    assert fp.read(20) == b"<!doctype html><html"

Features

• Allows applications to connect to internet with just unix domain socket
• Works with containers and systemd private network
• Supports both sync and async usage
• urllib compatible build_opener
• Optional httpcore transport for use with libraries like httpx

This is not a feature complete socks proxy. Only client mode is supported. It is designed for use with tor's unix socks socket

• No support for socks bind
• No support for udp
• Only NoAuth and UserPass auth supported
• Only supports socks5h protocol. Connects to the socks proxy as domain name. However ip string can be passed for domain name with tor

Usage

Please check socks_test.py and Makefile