Re: SOCKS Proxy support in Irssi?

Tim Wojtulewicz <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:18:21 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.irc.irssi.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 28, 2006, at 5:46 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> I noticed IRSSI can be built with SOCKS support. What exactly does  
> this
> mean as there is no documentation on this. Also is it possible to use
> IRSSI with a SOCKS proxy?
>
> Thank you.

There are options you can set for the proxy.

[proxy]
use_proxy = OFF
proxy_string = CONNECT %s %d
proxy_string_after =
proxy_port = 6667
proxy_address =
proxy_password =

I'm guessing that irssi supports piping irc sessions over a SOCKS  
proxy using those settings, but I've never tried it.

Tim