Re: socks proxy possible?

On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 11:37:27PM +0100, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> 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?

  +1 to document on using tsocks.

  Sockets are subtle and not easy to code in a portable way.
  
-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-