simplex-chat
Simplex-chat should follow system proxy configuration
Starting simplex-chat in a terminal on Linux with the variables https_proxy et http_proxy (also in uppercase) set to a proxy address, it still connects directly to the SMP servers. No possibility of using proxies appears in the help messages so I am assuming this is not implemented.
SMP connection is I guess not technically considered HTTPS, so maybe these specific variables are not the best choice, but it would be great if simplex-chat could somehow follow system proxy configuration for all outbound connections.
I think it should be possible to configure it on TCP level. SMP is definitely not HTTP traffic, and most likely it won’t work correctly via HTTP proxy - you need to proxy all TCP traffic
An HTTP proxy that accepts CONNECT should be transparent to any kind of TCP trafic, but of course it needs to allow SMP ports. A support for SOCKS5 would otherwise be great too!
I might be terribly wrong, but I think I was always configuring it on the system level, and the application doesn't need to be changed to use proxy... I will review it again.
I also tried setting the all_proxy environment variable, with no effect.
Trying to change it via environment variable still puts the responsibility for using proxy on the app, some apps may use it and some would not… I will look into how to configure it on the system level.