NetNewsWire Add proxy server support

As a user I want to be able to define a proxy server within the app so I can connect through it.

Example: I run the tor service on my computer and want to use 127:0.0.1:9050 to connect via tor.

Sep 19 '18 13:09 rex4539

Isn‘t this something to set in Network preferences?

Sep 19 '18 17:09 brentsimmons

Network preferences is system-wide.

The request is for app-specific proxy server support.

See how it is implemented in Telegram, Textual or even Firefox, for example.

Sep 19 '18 18:09 rex4539

Got it. My question, though, is why you want this as an app-specific thing? Why is it not something you set system-wide?

I’m not asking to be critical — it’s just that understanding why the feature is wanted helps me decide what to do.

Sep 19 '18 18:09 brentsimmons

The main reason is that proxy servers are slow by definition.

You are hopping through relays that provide many benefits (anonymity, censorship circumvention etc) but have the drawback of slow speed.

For example, I don't want my ISP to know which RSS feeds I'm reading but I want to have full internet speed while watching YouTube videos because they would never play in real time under a proxy server and would always stop to buffer.

So I enable the proxy in NetNewsWire but leave Safari running normal.

Sep 19 '18 19:09 rex4539

It will be great to have this feature. Proxy setting for app-specific is very useful in the countries which dont have free network environment, like feeds from feedburner are totally blocked in China.

Mar 07 '20 18:03 sivan

@brentsimmons @vincode-io Any hope to implement this for 6.0?

Jan 20 '21 11:01 rex4539

Sorry, no. The features for 6.0 are done and we are trying to get them stabilised so that we can release it.

Jan 20 '21 11:01 vincode-io

It will be great to have this feature. Proxy setting for app-specific is very useful in the countries which dont have free network environment, like feeds from feedburner are totally blocked in China.

hope soon hope soon

Apr 16 '21 10:04 zhimng

Perhaps the time has come to implement this?

Nov 02 '21 13:11 rex4539

@brentsimmons @vincode-io If support proxy, then the subscription can be updated normally in PAC Mode. Otherwise, I have to open the Global Mode of the agent at all times, which is not realistic. Thanks

Dec 31 '21 07:12 llbec

Any progress on this?

Aug 15 '22 01:08 jiacai2050

Any progress on this?

We have not worked on this, and it’s not planned for the next release.

Aug 15 '22 17:08 brentsimmons

Any progress on this yet?

Oct 15 '23 14:10 Chuhan1112

We haven’t worked on this — there are a number of priorities to ship before we’d consider working on this.

Oct 26 '23 04:10 brentsimmons