Set up a SOCKS proxy in your GeckoView

[saadullah216]

i am trying to setup proxy with GeckoView in my android app but it is not working.
Actually i want to use tor with GeckoView.

i am using following code:

    val builder = GeckoRuntimeSettings.Builder()
    val args = arrayOf("socks://127.0.0.1:9150")
    //val args = arrayOf("--proxy-server=socks://127.0.0.1:9150")
    builder.arguments(args)
    val settings = builder.build()
    val runtime = GeckoRuntime.create(applicationContext , settings)
    geckoSession.open(runtime)

[makotokato]

@saadullah216

We don't provide any API to set proxy. But you can set up it like Firefox desktop (about:config's preferences), so I guess that you may set up it via YAML files (see https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/mobile/android/geckoview/consumer/automation.html#enabling-reading-configuration-from-a-file-unconditionally)

[guness]

hey what about authentication, can we provide username and password somehow too?

And can you also give you more info about DNS resolution?

[dimaslanjaka]

@saadullah216

We don't provide any API to set proxy. But you can set up it like Firefox desktop (about:config's preferences), so I guess that you may set up it via YAML files (see https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/mobile/android/geckoview/consumer/automation.html#enabling-reading-configuration-from-a-file-unconditionally)

what values we can write in yaml file?

can i put media.peerconnection.enabled=false ?

[dimaslanjaka]

i was declare yaml file

# Contents of /data/local/tmp/com.yourcompany.yourapp-geckoview-config.yaml

env:
  MOZ_LOG: nsHttp:5

args:
  - --marionette
#   - --profile
#   - "/path/to/gecko-profile"

prefs:
  media.peerconnection.enabled.boolean: false
  media.peerconnection.enabled: false
  foo.bar.string: "string"
  foo.bar.int: 500

then when i access about:config, the property media.peerconnection.enabled value still true

my code

        val browser = browser = findViewById<GeckoView>(R.id.geckoview)
        val session = GeckoSession(settings.build())
        // Workaround for Bug 1758212
        session.contentDelegate = object : ContentDelegate {}
//        runtime = GeckoRuntime.create(this)
        var builder = GeckoRuntimeSettings.Builder()
        if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
            builder.remoteDebuggingEnabled(true)
            builder.consoleOutput(true)
        }
//        builder.preferences().setBoolean("media.peerconnection.enabled", false)
        // enable about:config
        builder.aboutConfigEnabled(true)
        // modify about:config
        val path = Uri.parse("file:///android_asset/gecko-config.yaml")
        val geckoConfigPath = path.toString()
//        Timber.tag("gecko: config").d(geckoConfigPath)
        builder.configFilePath(geckoConfigPath)

        runtime = GeckoRuntime.create(this, builder.build())

        session.open(runtime)
        browser.setSession(session)
//        session.loadUri("about:buildconfig")
        session.loadUri("about:config")

[guness]

Was just checking if the username-password support is added somehow. then I noticed my comment above...
It seems not.
Here is another interesting issue tho:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122752