kubo-socks-plugin

A Kubo plugin allowing to use SOCKS proxy over the IPFS network

Note

This repository is not the Skypier MVP, but an experiment/POC around SOCKS5 proxies. We are refining the MVP in a separate git repository, and will focus on standalone libp2p VPN node development.

Build

You can build the plugin using

go build . -o kubo-socks

And then run it with

# Be sure to have a kubo node already running
./kubo-socks

You can create a config.json file containing the plugin configuration. Here is the default configuration.

{
    "port": 8081,
    "socksPort": 1080
}

• port is the plugin listening port. You can interact with the API at http://localhost:8081/api/v0/ in this example.
• socksPort is the SOCKS5 listening port

SOCKS5 Proxy

The plugin is running a local SOCKS5 proxy on port tcp/1080. It is not supposed to be used as it, but buy a remote client coming from another kubo-socks node.

API

The plugin serves an HTTP API that can be requested from the frontend

• GET /ping ↔ Just ping the backend
• GET /streams ↔ List all active libp2p streams on the Kubo node
• GET /listeners ↔ List all listeners on the Kubo node
• GET /peers ↔ Show directly connected peers of Kubo node
• GET /forward/<nodeID> ↔ Open a port locally listening to SOCKS5 clients and forwarding connections to the node
• GET /ping/<nodeID> ↔ Send echo request packets to IPFS host
• GET /streams/close ↔ Close all libp2p streams on the Kubo node
• GET /id ↔ Return the local nodeID

We're hacking on IPFS <3