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Re: "I am trying to explore SOCKS5 support for gemini clients,..."
Lagrange currently does not support SOCKS5. It has been requested a few times and I agree it would be useful in some circumstances (e.g., when you are stuck behind a proxy) but I'm still slowly figuring out if there is a way to do this without adding a new dependency. I've understood the SOCKS protocol isn't that complicated so it might be feasible to implement the support from scratch in the_Foundation's Socket and Address classes.
Aug 06 · 3 months ago
I have implemented a SOCKS5 proxy for a mock service in java a while ago which was really simple, but that was only for unit testing (of a socks5 client).
Otherwise I will explore if a Gemini proxy to connect to SOCKS5 would work, that is supported by more clients than directly SOCKS5
I just remembered that SSH port forward can do SOCKS5 as well, that would be another use-case for it when accessing a test server that is in an internal network
I made a very basic version of a gemini to socks5 proxy that can be used with clients that support the gemini proxy protocol, this works nicely to access TOR sites except that it does not have client certs since I don't think that is possible. https://tildegit.org/alexlehm/gemini-socks5-proxy
🚀 totroptof · Aug 06 at 18:28:
If you’re interested in it for Tor use, I use Lagrange through with the torify wrapper program and it seems to work fine.
diohsc supports socks5 (via -S and -P options)
I should mention that I am on Windows, so most socksify solutions would not work, though Sockscap might work
I have successfully built diohsc on Linux, that works to connect to SOCKS5
I sumarized my findings about using SOCKS5
— gemini.lehmann.cx/using_socks.gmi
I am trying to explore SOCKS5 support for gemini clients, is that in Lagrange in some way? There was some talk about using TOR to access gemini servers on IRC and one option to do that would be to use the SOCKS5 interface to forward the DNS and socket connection to TOR and then to the .onion server but it seems that very few clients support that. Lagrange has some proxy configuration but in other ways so that I could not configure a TCP connect proxy.