web2py behind socks proxy

[Saifuddin Rangwala]

Hi,

    In my environment, I have web2py running inside restricted network that doesn't have direct internet access.

I have a socks proxy that can help with access to internet from web2py host.

Is there a way to configure a global socks proxy for web2py, such that everything like emails, catpcha etc.. will use that socks proxy?

I tried searching and found a few threads where people tried attempting the same in the past but it is very clear what was the solution.

Thanks and appreciate the help!

[Saifuddin Rangwala]

I meant to say: I tried searching and found a few threads where people tried attempting the same in the past but it is "not" very clear what was the solution.

Apology for spam.

[Massimo Di Pierro]

Not sure I understand what you mean. Do you want emails to go out using a different network interface than the incoming http connections? 

[Saifuddin Rangwala]

So here is my deployment scenario for web2py:

web2py is running on AWS.

I have a 4 node setup on AWS: 1 load balancer, 2 webpy behind nginx with uwsgi and 1 postgres database.  nginx is behind the load balancer.

All outgress traffic(except local network) from web2py and database nodes has been blocked. Which means web2py cannot directly connect to a mail server that is running outside of this local network. And in this case mail server is a third party and running outside local network.

There is a separate proxy that is setup and all internet traffic(in this case: captcha and outgoing mails) needs to go via this proxy so that the traffic can be controlled better and audited as well.

I have set the http_proxy and https_proxy env variables for uwsgi processes and it has helped resolve the captcha issues. i.e. now all the google catpcha validation is going this proxy.

Now I understand that this is too much of an overkill for a web2py kind of application, but it has to be done this way due to some policy.

Hope this clarifies it a bit.

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