Proxy support?

[bgreenlee]

It doesn't appear that twitter-stream and/or EventMachine supports http proxies. Is that right?

[voloko]

I think you can. By passing proxy ip address as a host parameter and sending stream.twitter.com into the Host: http header. Thought you have to add additional option to options hash.

But you have to manually update http://github.com/voloko/twitter-stream/blob/master/lib/twitter/json_stream.rb#L164

Share if you do the fork

http://github.com/voloko/twitter-stream/blob/master/lib/twitter/json_stream.rb#L164

[bgreenlee]

I tried that, but it's not working (our proxy is sending back 400 Bad Request). Looking at http://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request, I think it's a bit more complicated than that. I think I'll see if I can get something working with em-http-request.

[voloko]

hmm. It looks like it does exactly the same thing with the request: http://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/blob/master/lib/em-http/request.rb#L61

Anyway, if you find the solution, let me know. It might be useful to add this to twitter-stream

[bgreenlee]

Not if you dig a bit deeper: http://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/blob/master/lib/em-http/client.rb#L210

[voloko]

I did. But the code you showing has nothing to do with the request. Its about response parsing.

[bgreenlee]

The problem turned out to be that proxies need to have the full url in the request, not just the path. Fixed: http://github.com/bgreenlee/twitter-stream/commit/6a06df789c070fa47f2313974b8d384ab0a8fab7