[Bug 189019] No SOCKS proxy support

[Tranquillity]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189019





--- Comment #8 from Tranquillity <bugs kde org kanarski de>  2009-05-27 12:33:00 ---
It seems not to be a good reason to remove a nice feature for Linux users
because it is not available on Windows.

I even saw this one:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konqueror/settings/kio/kproxydlg.cpp?view=log#rev880094
and could not confirm that it is non-working because I used this feature up to
KDE 3.5.9 and a colleague of mine used it in KDE 4.1.

It took indeed some time until I understood how to use this SOCKS thing but
then it worked great for some years with KMail, Korn, Konqueror (FTP) to name
only a few.

The dialog should have clearly stated that you have to install for example
dante-client and configure your /etc/dante.conf accordingly. A more intuitive
and/or integrated version in the future would be fantastic.

In general the proxy settings seem to be less mature than in earlier versions.
After switching from KDE 3.5.1 to 4.2.0 I had even problems with HTTPS.

Some tips:

- In the meantime I use another FTP client together with socksify (Kasablanca
instead of Konqueror although it is not as comfortable)

- I start amarok from the command line like this to use streams because there
are no proxy settings for xine anymore (neither in Amarok nor in
SystemSettings): http_proxy=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3128/ amarok

I hope proxy support will become mature again soon. Apart from that keep up the
good work, KDE4 looks really great.

Related bug reports:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155707
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192747

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