Proxy handling in KDE4

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>   
>> Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>     
>>> Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Does anyone have information about proxy handling in KDE4?
>>>>         
>>> HTTP proxying for kio_http will keep on working.
>>>
>>> All the rest of the proxying in KDE will be *disabled* for KDE 4.0.
>>>
>>> I'll work on implementing it correctly for 4.1.
>>>       
>> Will you also implement a usable SOCKS4/5 proxy support?  - (Have a look
>> at bug # 147340 [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147340]  if you
>> didn't see it yet.)
>>     
>
> I'll use the proxies available in QtNetwork, which supports SOCKS v5. I 
> have no idea if it's compatible with v4. If it isn't, I'll make no effort 
> to support it, though.
>   

AFAIU, the difference from SOCKS5 to 4 is that it added support for...
  ...UDP,
  ...authentication,
  ...DNS resolution by the SOCKS server for the SOCKS client, I
  ...IPv6.
Which probably means, that a SOCKS4 client can use a SOCKS5 server without
a problem (unless the server is configured to enforce authentication), but
a SOCKS client expecting the features of SOCKS5 will not be getting them
from an old server.

Did I understand you correct in that you'll be able to implement these
your plans (KDE proxying based on QtNetwork) in KDE 4.1 the earliest? (Not
complaining, just wanna know...)

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