Websocket Proxying Support (Django Channels)

[Archmonger]

Would be fantastic if WS proxying was supported, as many Django users have been moving to ASGI webservers.

See asgiproxy for inspiration.

[ZipBrandon]

I'm having a difficult time trying to adapt RevProxy to async. My architecture has Django as the entrypoint into my services to leverage Django's auth and security practices. I proxy my requests to the various services and I am unable to use async and deferments of underlying services because of this. In essence I have created my own GIL :(

My approach has been trying to replace urlib3 with httpx but I get hung up with streaming responses. It would be wonderful if someone more knowledgeable could create working PR!

[Archmonger]

Seems like two people accomplished this with minimal LOCS:

• https://github.com/django/channels/discussions/1755#discussioncomment-6360755
• https://gist.github.com/brianglass/e3184341afe63ed348144753ee62dce5

[Archmonger]

Here's a non-django ASGI generic of websocket reverse proxies: https://github.com/valohai/asgiproxy

[shicholas]

Is there a way we can fundraise through @jazzband to get some help here?! Thanks!