ProxyCommand support ¶

class paramiko.proxy. ProxyCommand ( command_line ) ¶

Wraps a subprocess running ProxyCommand-driven programs.

This class implements a the socket-like interface needed by the Transport and Packetizer classes. Using this class instead of a regular socket makes it possible to talk with a Popen’d command that will proxy traffic between the client and a server hosted in another machine.

Instances of this class may be used as context managers.

__init__ ( command_line ) ¶

Create a new CommandProxy instance. The instance created by this class can be passed as an argument to the Transport class.

Parameters: command_line ( str ) – the command that should be executed and used as the proxy.

recv ( size ) ¶

Read from the standard output of the forked program.

Parameters: size ( int ) – how many chars should be read Returns: the string of bytes read, which may be shorter than requested

send ( content ) ¶

Write the content received from the SSH client to the standard input of the forked command.

Parameters: content ( str ) – string to be sent to the forked command