QNetworkProxy Class Reference
^{[QtNetwork module]}

SOCKS5

The SOCKS5 support in Qt 4 is based on RFC 1928 and RFC 1929. The supported authentication methods are no authentication and username/password authentication. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported, but domain name resolution via the SOCKS server is not supported; i.e. all domain names are resolved locally. There are several things to remember when using SOCKS5 with QUdpSocket and QTcpServer:

With QUdpSocket, a call to bind() may fail with a timeout error. If a port number other than 0 is passed to bind(), it is not guaranteed that it is the specified port that will be used. Use localPort() and localAddress() to get the actual address and port number in use. Because proxied UDP goes through two UDP connections, it is more likely that packets will be dropped.

With QTcpServer a call to listen() may fail with a timeout error. If a port number other than 0 is passed to listen(), then it is not guaranteed that it is the specified port that will be used. Use serverPort() and serverAddress() to get the actual address and port used to listen for connections. SOCKS5 only supports one accepted connection per call to listen(), and each call is likely to result in a different serverPort() being used.

See also QAbstractSocket and QTcpServer.

Member Type Documentation

enum QNetworkProxy::ProxyType

This enum describes the types of network proxying provided in Qt.

While Socks5 proxying works for both Tcp and Udp sockets, Http proxying is limited to Tcp connections. Http proxying also doesn't support binding sockets.

See also setType() and type().

Member Function Documentation

QNetworkProxy::QNetworkProxy ()

Constructs a QNetworkProxy with DefaultProxy type; the proxy type is determined by applicationProxy(), which defaults to NoProxy.

See also setType() and setApplicationProxy().

QNetworkProxy::QNetworkProxy ( ProxyType type, const QString & hostName = QString(), quint16 port = 0, const QString & user = QString(), const QString & password = QString() )

Constructs a QNetworkProxy with type, hostName, port, user and password.

QNetworkProxy::QNetworkProxy ( const QNetworkProxy & other )

Constructs a copy of other.

QNetworkProxy::~QNetworkProxy ()

Destroys the QNetworkProxy object.

QNetworkProxy QNetworkProxy::applicationProxy ()   [static]

Returns the application level network proxying.

If a QAbstractSocket or QTcpSocket has the QNetworkProxy::DefaultProxy type, then the QNetworkProxy returned by this function is used.

See also setApplicationProxy(), QAbstractSocket::proxy(), and QTcpServer::proxy().

QString QNetworkProxy::hostName () const

Returns the host name of the proxy host.

See also setHostName(), setPort(), and port().

QString QNetworkProxy::password () const

Returns the password used for authentication.

See also user(), setPassword(), and setUser().

quint16 QNetworkProxy::port () const

Returns the port of the proxy host.

See also setHostName(), setPort(), and hostName().

void QNetworkProxy::setApplicationProxy ( const QNetworkProxy & networkProxy )   [static]

Sets the application level network proxying to be networkProxy.

If a QAbstractSocket or QTcpSocket has the QNetworkProxy::DefaultProxy type, then the QNetworkProxy set with this function is used.

See also applicationProxy(), QAbstractSocket::setProxy(), and QTcpServer::setProxy().

void QNetworkProxy::setHostName ( const QString & hostName )

Sets the host name of the proxy host to be hostName.

See also hostName(), setPort(), and port().

void QNetworkProxy::setPassword ( const QString & password )

Sets the password for proxy authentication to be password.

See also user(), setUser(), and password().

void QNetworkProxy::setPort ( quint16 port )

Sets the port of the proxy host to be port.

See also hostName(), setHostName(), and port().

void QNetworkProxy::setType ( QNetworkProxy::ProxyType type )

Sets the proxy type for this instance to be type.

See also type().

void QNetworkProxy::setUser ( const QString & user )

Sets the user name for proxy authentication to be user.

See also user(), setPassword(), and password().

QNetworkProxy::ProxyType QNetworkProxy::type () const

Returns the proxy type for this instance.

See also setType().

QString QNetworkProxy::user () const

Returns the user name used for authentication.

See also setUser(), setPassword(), and password().

QNetworkProxy & QNetworkProxy::operator= ( const QNetworkProxy & other )

Assigns the value of the network proxy other to this network proxy.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.2.