protocols.http.proxy occassionally gets ignored

[Mikaela]

trafficstars

I have protocols.http.proxy set to 127.0.0.1:8118 which is Privoxy listening on 127.0.0.1 and it's configured to send traffic to Tor (forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 .).

However often web fetch https://icanhazip.com/ returns the real IP\n and web title http://expyuzz4wqqyqhjn.onion/ (www.torproject.org, see onion.torproject.org) returns <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>.

I have confirmed that the issue is not in Privoxy configuration as curl -x http://127.0.0.1:8118 https://icanhazip.com returns IP of a Tor exit node.

• The current (running) version of this Limnoria is 2018.09.01, running on Python 3.6.5 (default, Apr 1 2018, 05:46:30) [GCC 7.3.0].
• Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

[Mikaela]

There was a suggestion that I may have a perception error on it working sometimes and there were two interesting links.

• https://github.com/oddluck/limnoria-plugins/commit/a5dcd83d7bf4320c2c1d483b4d1d8b83b520c48a - SpiffyTitles commit adding support for HTTP proxy where the word "proxy" can be easily seen.
• https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/blob/5195ff8e122c2966fc7c65dd16edc50a57a79232/plugins/Web/plugin.py - the Web plugin source code as it currently is doesn't mention the word "proxy" hinting that the plugin may not have proxy support at all?

[progval]

the Web plugin source code as it currently is doesn't mention the word "proxy"

it doesn't need to deal with proxies because it uses supybot.utils.web.

[Mikaela]

It seems to hardcode the proxy as None instead of actually reading the configured proxy?

• https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/blob/master-2021-06-17/src/utils/web.py#L128

[progval]

Yes, but it's overridden here: https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/blob/67a39a3adbd78d8088a0bac94c47227891a54e58/src/conf.py#L1335