How to use Proxy with TcpClient.ConnectAsync()?

Question

HTTP proxy support in .NET does not actually support the lower level classes like TcpClient or Socket. But I want to connect a TCPServer (ip, port) through HTTP proxy that s

Answer 1

I find a solution base on .NET: Connecting a TcpClient through an HTTP proxy with authentication and Bypass the proxy using TcpClient

TcpClient _client;
NetworkStream _stream;

public TcpClient ProxyTcpClient(string targetHost, int targetPort, string httpProxyHost, int httpProxyPort, string proxyUserName, string proxyPassword)
{
        const BindingFlags Flags = BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance;
        Uri proxyUri = new UriBuilder
        {
            Scheme = Uri.UriSchemeHttp,
            Host = httpProxyHost,
            Port = httpProxyPort
        }.Uri;
        Uri targetUri = new UriBuilder
        {
             Scheme = Uri.UriSchemeHttp,
             Host = targetHost,
             Port = targetPort
        }.Uri;

        WebProxy webProxy = new WebProxy(proxyUri, true);
        webProxy.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(proxyUserName, proxyPassword);
        WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(targetUri);
        request.Proxy = webProxy;
        request.Method = "CONNECT";
        HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
        Type responseType = responseStream.GetType();
        PropertyInfo connectionProperty = responseType.GetProperty("Connection", Flags);
        var connection = connectionProperty.GetValue(responseStream, null);
        Type connectionType = connection.GetType();
        PropertyInfo networkStreamProperty = connectionType.GetProperty("NetworkStream", Flags);
        NetworkStream networkStream = (NetworkStream)networkStreamProperty.GetValue(connection, null);
        Type nsType = networkStream.GetType();
        PropertyInfo socketProperty = nsType.GetProperty("Socket", Flags);
        Socket socket = (Socket)socketProperty.GetValue(networkStream, null);

        return new TcpClient { Client = socket };
}

public static async Task<bool> ConnectAsync(string hostname, int port)
{
        _client = ProxyTcpClient("IPTargetHost", 1234, "IPProxyHost", 5678, "Userproxy", "Userppwd");
        _stream = conn._client.GetStream();

        ..... Do some stuff

        // Connexion OK
        return true;
}

Answer 2

We have managed to implement it using .Net's Socket. Nuget package is called Filemail.ProxiedTcpClient. The code is pretty simple:

public static TcpClient CreateProxied(Uri proxy, Uri destination)
{
    var socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);

    socket.Connect(proxy.Host, proxy.Port);

    var connectMessage = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"CONNECT {destination.Host}:{destination.Port} HTTP/1.1{Environment.NewLine}{Environment.NewLine}");
    socket.Send(connectMessage);

    byte[] receiveBuffer = new byte[1024];
    var received = socket.Receive(receiveBuffer);

    var response = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(receiveBuffer, 0, received);

    if (!response.Contains("200 OK"))
    {
        throw new Exception($"Error connecting to proxy server {destination.Host}:{destination.Port}. Response: {response}");
    }

    return new TcpClient
    {
        Client = socket
    };
}

Contribute here: https://github.com/filemail/ProxiedTcpClient