Virtual Method

GioProxyconnect

since: 2.26

Declaration

GIOStream*
connect (
  GProxy* proxy,
  GIOStream* connection,
  GProxyAddress* proxy_address,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Given connection to communicate with a proxy (eg, a GSocketConnection that is connected to the proxy server), this does the necessary handshake to connect to proxy_address, and if required, wraps the GIOStream to handle proxy payload.

Available since: 2.26

Parameters

connection

Type: GIOStream

A GIOStream.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

proxy_address

Type: GProxyAddress

A GProxyAddress.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

cancellable

Type: GCancellable

A GCancellable.

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.

If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.

The argument will left initialized to NULL by the virtual function if there are no errors.

In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: GIOStream

A GIOStream that will replace connection. This might be the same as connection, in which case a reference will be added.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.