Proxy handling in KDE4

[Jeff Mitchell]

Does anyone have information about proxy handling in KDE4?  I had a couple of 
issues with KDE3 and a search of core-devel archives doesn't reveal much that 
I could see.  Specifically:

* SOCKS support would never work right -- it'd always say "SOCKS could not be 
loaded" even when they were installed and I pointed right to the library.  
Standard dante library.
* No per-application method to override proxies.  For instance, if generally I 
want a proxy for normal KDE usage but must not be using a proxy for some 
specific app's functionality.  Or if I don't want a proxy normally but must 
pipe some app's traffic through a SOCKS gateway.

Have either of these issues been looked at/resolved in KDE4 so far?

Thanks,
Jeff