Proxy Support about hermes HOT 15 CLOSED

If OSX is configured to use a proxy, Hermes will pick up the settings and use those. Is that unsuitable and you'd prefer a Hermes-specific configuration?

I'm not sure if OSX has the option for this, but I would look into it if you didn't want to use the proxy for all traffic.

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Hi @alexcrichton,

Since I don't need a proxy for anything other than blocked websites I don't want to enable it globally.

Anyways, while looking for an application to do that (Proxifier looks good) I discovered that I can use Hermes without any proxy configuration at all. I know I should've tried running Hermes first but this is amazing, since I can't connect to Pandora without using a proxy any other way. Even tricks like changing X-forwarded-for header in Firefox stopped working a while ago. Are you doing anything special for that?

I don't know if this is a temporary thing but feel free to close this issue.

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It looks like an application like the one you mentioned is the best bet. If I run across some per-application configuration for proxy settings, I'll add some preferences, but in the meantime, proxifier looks like it'll get the job done!

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I plan on implementing this soon

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Great news! After Hermes switched to the new protocol I couldn't use it without an application like Proxifier. What made you change your mind?

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I've got time on my hands and I realized it's extremely relevant to have a specific proxy when listening to Pandora instead of only mildly relevant.

That's peculiar that Proxifier no longer works because I didn't change how network connections were made, so there's no reason it should have stopped working.

This is also taking slightly longer than expected, so it might take a bit to land.

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@alexcrichton: It works perfectly. What I meant was before the protocol switch Hermes used to bypass country restriction for some reason and no proxy was necessary (in my case).

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Oh that's odd... Maybe Pandora assumed anyone using the old API was a US user? Regardless, I definitely won't be moving back any time soon because the JSON API in theory is more stable and breaks less than the XMLRPC API.

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Does your proxy require authentication?

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@alexcrichton: No, I'm mostly using SSH's tunneling functionality as a SOCKS proxy server.

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Excellent, I might wrap that in later, but for now I'm closing this because it's implemented and just waiting for the next release.

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@alexcrichton: Great, looking forward to it!

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Check out 1.1.5 and see if it works.

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@alexcrichton: It works really good, thank you!

Btw, turns out it isn't necessary to use proxy for the audio stream for getting around country restriction, so I reverted 61d0014 and it works just as good. An option for this might be useful for people using slow proxies like Tor.

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Maybe you can assume someone with restricted internet access is likely to use a system-wide proxy and only enable proxy for audio stream in that case.

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