toggle port-forward option from command line about desktop HOT 7 CLOSED

i'm a developer :)

haha, great! if you want, you could add @pia-foss to your organization. 😄

Sorry i found your original description hard to follow, but your update is much clearer.

I thought my first post was pretty clear, but okay -- I'm glad I got a second chance to explain! 👍

Hypothetically, what if we just exposed the "use port-forwarding" checkbox to the CLI? Then you could toggle it on or off before you connect to an auto region?

something like piactl set portforward on/off? sure, that would work!

IMHO, all GUI options should be toggle-able from the CLI anyway. 🧑‍💻

from desktop.

You can actually make use of the unstable CLI options to achieve what you want today, try the following to toggle port forwarding (use false to turn it off):

piactl -u applysettings '{"portForward":true}'

from desktop.

the auto region does already respect port-forwarding - if you toggle on PF, the auto region is constrained to those regions which already have PF.

from desktop.

I already wrote:

independently of the GUI settings

and

I understand the same can be accomplished from the GUI, but I do not see the portforwarding as a global configuration -- it's more of a local configuration to be changed at will (outside of the GUI).

my goal is to be able to interface with PF and non-PF regions in a user-independent workflow, without flicking GUI checkboxes, e.g. in a bash script:

piactl set region auto-port-forward
echo "do something that requires PF"

piactl set region auto
echo "do something that requires low ping"

at present, if I select PF in the GUI, then I'm stuck with PF for all my sessions, and vice versa.

@banister I'm new here -- are you writing as part of the PIA team, or as a regular user?
I think this issue is for the developers, if and when they'll have time to reply or tackle this.

from desktop.

i'm a developer :)

Sorry i found your original description hard to follow, but your update is much clearer.

Hypothetically, what if we just exposed the "use port-forwarding" checkbox to the CLI? Then you could toggle it on or off before you connect to an auto region?

from desktop.

seems to be working! thanks. 👍

if that's okay with you, I'd like to wait for such feature to be documented somewhere before closing this issue.

reference: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/kb/articles/pia-desktop-command-line-interface

from desktop.

This is now possible in 2.2.0 with piactl set requestportforward <true/false>! piactl --help lists this in 2.2.0, and we'll update the KB article.

from desktop.