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The client sends it every HTTP request and its IMQ connection; it makes them with current TLS and certificates, upgrades IMVU's plain-HTTP hosts to HTTPS, and refuses IMVU's reporting endpoints. CI tests it and publishes t5de-proxy.exe as nightlies and tagged releases. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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# t5de-proxy
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T5DE's local proxy for IMVU Classic. With T5DE's `t5de-proxy` patch, the client starts `t5de-proxy.exe` and
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connects to IMVU through it:
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- **Every HTTP request**, the embedded browser's included (IMVU's browser hands its requests to the client's
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Python). The proxy makes them with current TLS and root certificates (the client has only IMVU's bundled
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certificates and TLS 1.2), pooled connections and HTTP/2.
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- **HTTPS for IMVU hosts the client reaches over plain HTTP** (its XML-RPC API, images, CSS), so its account
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headers don't cross the network in the clear ([docs/hosts.md](docs/hosts.md)).
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- **IMQ**, IMVU's chat and presence connection: the client speaks plaintext to the proxy, which connects to the
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gateway over TLS.
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- **IMVU's reporting endpoints refused**, as T5DE's patches already do in the client.
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If the proxy isn't there or stops, the client connects directly, as before.
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Unofficial: not made by or affiliated with IMVU.
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## How it works
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The proxy listens on a free port of 127.0.0.1 and accepts only requests carrying the token it gave the client
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(`Proxy-Authorization: Basic t5de:<token>`), so other programs and web pages can't use it.
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- HTTP: requests in absolute form (`GET https://api.imvu.com/... HTTP/1.1`) over plain HTTP on loopback, for
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http and https URLs alike. Responses come back as the server sent them: redirects aren't followed, bodies
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aren't decompressed. When the proxy can't reach a server it answers 502 with `X-T5de-Proxy-Error`, which the
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client raises as the network error it would have had connecting directly.
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- `CONNECT host:port`: the client then speaks plaintext and the proxy connects to `host:port` over TLS. The
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proxy reads IMQ's framing (message type and size, not contents) to log it.
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The client starts it as `t5de-proxy -parent <pid> -ready <file> -log %TEMP%\t5de-proxy.log`; it writes its
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address and token to the ready file once listening, and exits with the client. Setting `T5DE_PROXY_TRACE=1`
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before starting the client adds full URLs (with queries) and every IMQ frame to the log.
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## Building
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go test ./...
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GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -trimpath -ldflags "-H=windowsgui" -o dist/t5de-proxy.exe ./cmd/t5de-proxy
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CI publishes `t5de-proxy.exe`: pushes to main replace the `nightly` pre-release, `vX.Y.Z` tags make releases.
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To ship a release in T5DE, copy its url and sha256 into t5de's `t5de.toml` (`[[programs]]`, patch `t5de-proxy`).
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