Ipfs: IPFS daemon behind (corporate) firewall

Hi @pyhedgehog, thanks! This is a good question. It may belong in ipfs/faq or in ipfs/support. Could you reopen it there?

There are already exists ipfs/support#32 and ipfs/faq#185
But first of them stay unanswered for almost half a year!
So once again - my question if it's supported at all?

I pinged some people on IRC. Let's get an answer for you sooner. Thanks.

@pyhedgehog There's been some response over on ipfs/support#32. For now, I would direct you there. We're also trying out ipfs.trydiscourse.com - this would be a great place to put your question, actually, as a lot of the devs are looking at it at the moment.

For now, closing this issue. Thanks.

@RichardLitt, there are not meaningful response in ipfs/support#32.

1. "ipfs does not use http"? http proxy has CONNECT method.
2. What about socks configuration? How it should be done? What will be correct format in place of /ipv4/127.0.0.1/tcp/9050/socks/longandunmemorizablename.onion/QmNODEID?
3. What about tor bootstrap?

@pyhedgehog I hear you. Thanks for posting those questions there; I hope we're able to answer those for you (I would, of course, if I knew the answers. I don't.)

Either way, though, this repository is not the right place to ask these questions.

I've copied questions to support repository.

Why is this issue closed? Do we have a way to go around proxys?
If I follow the links it's "Issue moved to [there]" > "Issue moved to [there]" > This page which gives no additionnal information.

Is the answer basically "it doesn't interfere with proxy"? Because it's what I managed to understand from the issues, but it's not true.

@GitDoggo we've moved support questions/discussions to the forums. However, it looks like this was also a feature request (socks proxy support).

I've filed an issue (https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/issues/286). For now, the only solution is to handle this outside of ipfs. There are VPN-like tools that will tunnel all OS traffic through a socks proxy (e.g., https://code.google.com/archive/p/badvpn/wikis/tun2socks.wiki). However, I can't find any good, mature ones (although they must exist somewhere).

@Stebalien Thanks for your answer.
But sadly, VPN-like tools are blocked by my company proxy (Anonymizing Utilities), I could be in big trouble for using them, and I assume it's the same for most companies.

This would be a "vpn-like" tool that would route all traffic through the corporate (socks) proxy so I doubt they'd have an issue with it. Basically, instead of configuring each application to use the proxy independently, you'd configure the the OS itself to use the proxy.