[tor-dev] Help hacking Mumble

[Andrew F]

Matt,
What are you thinking about this?



On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Matt <matt at pagan.io> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 22:01:18 +0000
> Matt <matt at pagan.io> wrote:
>
> Here is one of the Mumble developers' take on the issue:
>
>
> > I don't know where @zanethomas's post went, but I just want to clarify
> > what needs to be done here, and what's wrong.
> >
> > By default, Qt's proxy support can route hostname resolution through
> > the proxy if a hostname is used when creating the socket.
> >
> > However, in Mumble, we use QHostAddress to resolve addresses ahead of
> > time in a lot of places (for example, the server list), which causes
> > the DNS requests to not go through the proxy.
> >
> > We need some kind of abstraction on top of QHostAddress that allows us
> > to route the hostname lookups via the user's selected proxy. That, or
> > we need to upstream a Qt patch that allows QHostAddress to resolve
> > through the application's QNetworkProxy.
> >
> > ...Something along those lines.
>
> Source: https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/1033
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