Use Orbot SOCKS Proxy

[flower-37]

Hi,

I have recently tried to use the Orbot proxy function of the lightning browser but unfortunately I cannot connect to http websites while https work perfectly. The TOR proxy returns an error message which says that the proxy expects a "CONNECT" http connection.

This is due to a change in Orbot. The developers have stopped bundling privoxy and now use a built-in proxy of TOR.
(for reference: here )

Usually the webkit proxy seems to set the socks proxy as well, but is there any chance to make the lightning browser connect through SOCKS? I presume that is up to WebView... Can you shed some light on this?

WebkitProxy.java
ProxyUtils.java

Edit:
However, as suggested in the first link it might be possible to use the AndroidX ProxyController (lightning already uses androidx so there wouldn't be any overhead...).

Thank you very much for your great work and keep it up 😄

Best regards
flower-37