Forwarding traffic through SOCKS server (HTTP protocol Proxy)

bypass.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import socks
import socket
from urllib.request import urlopen

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # defining the SOCKS proxy and the host
    socks.setdefaultproxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, "localhost", 9050)
    # performing an request
    req = urlopen("http://api.ipify.org/")
    # priting the API request
    print("The REAL IP is %s" % req.read().decode('utf8'))
    # redirecting from socket to socks (forwarding)
    socket.socket = socks.socksocket
    # perfomrming an request
    req = urlopen("http://api.ipify.org/")
    print("The SOCKS IP is: %s" % req.read().decode('utf8'))