Support for routing outbound HTTP requests via a proxy (#6239)

The `http_proxy` and `HTTPS_PROXY` env vars can be set to a `host[:port]` value which should point to a proxy.

The address of the proxy should be excluded from IP blacklists such as the `url_preview_ip_range_blacklist`.

The proxy will then be used for
 * push
 * url previews
 * phone-home stats
 * recaptcha validation
 * CAS auth validation

It will *not* be used for:
 * Application Services
 * Identity servers
 * Outbound federation
 * In worker configurations, connections from workers to masters

Fixes #4198.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/server.pyi b/synapse/server.pyi

index 83d1f11283..b5e0b57095 100644
--- a/synapse/server.pyi
+++ b/synapse/server.pyi
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import synapse.handlers.message
 import synapse.handlers.room
 import synapse.handlers.room_member
 import synapse.handlers.set_password
+import synapse.http.client
 import synapse.rest.media.v1.media_repository
 import synapse.server_notices.server_notices_manager
 import synapse.server_notices.server_notices_sender
@@ -38,6 +39,14 @@ class HomeServer(object):
         pass
     def get_state_resolution_handler(self) -> synapse.state.StateResolutionHandler:
         pass
+    def get_simple_http_client(self) -> synapse.http.client.SimpleHttpClient:
+        """Fetch an HTTP client implementation which doesn't do any blacklisting
+        or support any HTTP_PROXY settings"""
+        pass
+    def get_proxied_http_client(self) -> synapse.http.client.SimpleHttpClient:
+        """Fetch an HTTP client implementation which doesn't do any blacklisting
+        but does support HTTP_PROXY settings"""
+        pass
     def get_deactivate_account_handler(
         self,
     ) -> synapse.handlers.deactivate_account.DeactivateAccountHandler: