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The socks-proxy-agent package is a SOCKS proxy http.Agent implementation for HTTP and HTTPS. This package allows you to route HTTP and HTTPS requests through a SOCKS proxy server. It is useful for bypassing network restrictions or connecting to servers anonymously.
HTTP/HTTPS request via SOCKS proxy
This code sample demonstrates how to send an HTTP or HTTPS request through a SOCKS proxy using the socks-proxy-agent package. The agent is created with the proxy server information and passed to the HTTP request options.
const SocksProxyAgent = require('socks-proxy-agent');
const agent = new SocksProxyAgent('socks://localhost:1080');
const https = require('https');
https.get('https://example.com', { agent }, (res) => {
console.log(`Got response: ${res.statusCode}`);
// consume response body
res.resume();
}).on('error', (e) => {
console.error(`Got error: ${e.message}`);
});
The http-proxy-agent package provides an http.Agent implementation that connects to a specified HTTP proxy server, and can be used for forwarding HTTP requests. Unlike socks-proxy-agent, it does not support SOCKS proxies, only HTTP.
Similar to http-proxy-agent, https-proxy-agent provides an http.Agent implementation for HTTPS requests that connects to an HTTPS proxy server. It is specifically designed for HTTPS connections and does not support SOCKS proxies.
The proxy-agent package is a more general solution that supports multiple proxy protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS, and PAC files. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for the standard http.Agent and automatically selects the appropriate agent based on the proxy's protocol. This makes it more versatile than socks-proxy-agent, which is specialized for SOCKS proxies only.
http.Agent
implementation for HTTP and HTTPSThis module provides an http.Agent
implementation that connects to a
specified SOCKS proxy server, and can be used with the built-in http
and https
modules.
It can also be used in conjunction with the ws
module to establish a WebSocket
connection over a SOCKS proxy. See the "Examples" section below.
import https from 'https';
import { SocksProxyAgent } from 'socks-proxy-agent';
const agent = new SocksProxyAgent(
'socks://your-name%40gmail.com:abcdef12345124@br41.nordvpn.com'
);
https.get('https://ipinfo.io', { agent }, (res) => {
console.log(res.headers);
res.pipe(process.stdout);
});
ws
WebSocket connection exampleimport WebSocket from 'ws';
import { SocksProxyAgent } from 'socks-proxy-agent';
const agent = new SocksProxyAgent(
'socks://your-name%40gmail.com:abcdef12345124@br41.nordvpn.com'
);
var socket = new WebSocket('ws://echo.websocket.events', { agent });
socket.on('open', function () {
console.log('"open" event!');
socket.send('hello world');
});
socket.on('message', function (data, flags) {
console.log('"message" event! %j %j', data, flags);
socket.close();
});
FAQs
A SOCKS proxy `http.Agent` implementation for HTTP and HTTPS
The npm package socks-proxy-agent receives a total of 24,986,169 weekly downloads. As such, socks-proxy-agent popularity was classified as popular.
We found that socks-proxy-agent demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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