Re: socks proxy possible?

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:24:00AM +0000, higuita wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:25:18 +0100, Rudolf Sykora
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I wanted to use dillo with a socks proxy (using ssh -D portnumber),
> > however, I was not successful.
> 
> 	In the unix world, to use socks you usually need that the app
> support it... OR use a LD_LIBRARY_PATH preload trick to replace the
> normal network calls with socks one. Its usually called sockify a
> app.
> 
> 	Dante socks have a command called tsocks that does that, just
> run "tsocks dillo" and dillo will support the socks proxy and work
> normally.

Would it make sense to invest time into native socks support, or is
it ok to rely on tsocks or similar?

Cheers,
Johannes