{"id":6977,"date":"2005-02-03T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/socks-v5\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:58","slug":"socks-v5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/socks-v5\/","title":{"rendered":"SOCKS v5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone here had any luck making Firefox and\/or Thunderbird work properly with a SOCKS proxy? I&#8217;ve got one running via PuTTY and it works great for AIM and SOCKScap. I can&#8217;t get the damn thing to work with IE, Firefox, or Thunderbird. It appears that the apps are attempting to do their name resolution locally, so they don&#8217;t know where to connect to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone here had any luck making Firefox and\/or Thunderbird work properly with a SOCKS proxy? I&#8217;ve got one running via PuTTY and it works great for AIM and SOCKScap. I can&#8217;t get the damn thing to work with IE, Firefox, or Thunderbird. It appears that the apps are attempting to do their name resolution\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14652,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions\/14652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}