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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2011-05-05 11:47:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2011-05-05 11:47:55 +0200 |
| commit | 558f997e99c4c8e4f6ed888a85d748b33920cdf2 (patch) | |
| tree | dc3d362f3b0d82195f17dfa505a94c610ff3ced4 /docs/libcurl | |
| parent | fda0985bfde585f66dc64d2cd7483fcd10c45e5d (diff) | |
socks proxy: allow socks5h:// prefix too
Using 'socks5h' as proxy protocol will make it a
CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME proxy which is SOCKS5 and asking the proxy to
resolve host names. I found no "standard" protocol name for this.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 55b0db5ba..2494ecc15 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -634,9 +634,11 @@ specified the exact same way as the proxy can be set with \fICURLOPT_PROXY\fP, include protocol prefix (http://) and embedded user + password. Since 7.21.7, the proxy string may be specified with a protocol:// prefix to -specify alternative proxy protocols. Use socks4://, socks4a:// or socks5:// to -request the specific SOCKS version to be used. No protocol specified, http:// -and all others will be treated as HTTP proxies. +specify alternative proxy protocols. Use socks4://, socks4a://, socks5:// or +socks5h:// (the last one to enable socks5 and asking the proxy to do the +resolving, also known as CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME type) to request the +specific SOCKS version to be used. No protocol specified, http:// and all +others will be treated as HTTP proxies. .IP CURLOPT_PROXYPORT Pass a long with this option to set the proxy port to connect to unless it is specified in the proxy string \fICURLOPT_PROXY\fP. |