Re: SOCKS Proxy support in Irssi?

nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Actually it says in the manual that the /set proxy settings have nothing
> to do with Socks.
>
> So I am confused as to why irssi allows one to build in socks support if
> it is never used for anything. Or it does support Socks proxies but it is
> just not documented.
technically it does support SOCKS, but it's very badly done support.
a) it requires libdante b) you configure the proxy with environment
variables c) you can't run it w/o running it through a socks proxy.

and no, socksify doesn't work too well with irssi (it works, but only
somewhat. for example, DNS is broken)

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