SOCKS support about switchy

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Unfortunately, Windows doesn't support Socks v5 natively. however I'll try to 
implement 
this feature in the upcoming releases.

Original comment by [email protected] on 11 Dec 2009 at 1:14

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It would be great to implement "hostnames resolving over SOCKS v5" feature.

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Dec 2009 at 11:13

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Working on SOCKS v5 support (not including DNS over SOCKS).

Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Jan 2010 at 6:52

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It looks like you can trick it into using SOCKS v5 today.

If in switchy you enter under the HTTP proxy field something like:

    Http Proxy:    socks5://localhost
    Port:          1080

Then this sets the HTTP proxy to "socks5://localhost:1080", which chrome parses 
to 
mean a SOCKS v5 proxy at "localhost:1080", and things seem to work.

I confirmed this in Chrome by navigating to "chrome://net-
internals/proxyservice.config" to see what it interpreted the settings to mean. 
(note 
that you need to do a page load first before chrome re-fetches the IE settings).

@ydidukh:
> It would be great to implement "hostnames resolving over SOCKS v5" feature.

That particular issue should have been fixed in Chromium, see 
http://crbug.com/29914 
. The fix is not yet part of the stable releases, but it will be soon, I hoope.

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Jan 2010 at 5:10

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eroman
Your trick does not seem to work for me. I filled the fields as you wrote and 
hit
"save", and it automatically turned into this:

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Jan 2010 at 10:42

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@eroman
Nice trick, and a more simpler way to set Chrome's SOCKS5 proxy than using PAC 
scripts!
Thanks for the tip.

Regarding support of DNS over SOCKS: it's really great news! hope the fix is 
released 
soon, and thanks for your efforts and fixing this issue :)

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Jan 2010 at 11:14

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@xlu.2007
It works well, check "chrome://net-internals/proxyservice.config".
Anyway, the upcoming release (coming later today) will feature SOCKS v5 support.

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Jan 2010 at 11:30

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SOCKS v5 is supported now in v1.4 (sorry for the 2 days delay :)).

Original comment by [email protected] on 10 Jan 2010 at 4:11

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Original comment by [email protected] on 12 Jan 2010 at 10:43

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still resolve DNS locally even specified a socks5 proxy?

Original comment by [email protected] on 11 May 2010 at 2:57

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The traffic doesn't goes trough socks5 proxy after I'm entering address and 
port in corresponding field.

Original comment by [email protected] on 5 Mar 2011 at 4:19

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I have the same problem: traffic doesn't go through SOCKS5. :(
And what about DNS? Is it supposed go through SOCKS5?

Original comment by [email protected] on 4 Oct 2011 at 11:00