What language libraries do you want this in? It sounds pretty reasonable in general. Usually the next step is to open a ticket in our JIRA ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT) - bonus points if you attach a patch to make the change.
-Bryan On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Rajat Goel <rajat.goel2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a student at an Indian university where you can only connect to > internet through proxy server. Thus, directly using (hostname, port) to > construct TSocket object is not possible (connection will get refused). But > if thrift exposes TSocket(int socket) constructor to public and removes two > ALREADY_OPEN check, a user behind proxy can first negotiate a CONNECT > request with proxy server using raw socket and then use that to open > connection for further thrift usage. > > Just a small request and waiting for your suggestions. > Rajat Goel >