{"id":6978,"date":"2005-02-03T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/yay-socks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:58","slug":"yay-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/yay-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Yay SOCKS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I got the SOCKS thing figured out. It seems that current builds of Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and IE (?!?!) don&#8217;t support doing name resolution on the remote side of a SOCKS proxy. They all try to resolve the name locally, then use SOCKS for the actual connection itself. That just does&#8217;t make sense to me. heh.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after digging around online for a few hours I found a two-year Bugzilla thread which discusses this. It finally looks like it&#8217;s coming around. So, I grabbed the most recent Mozilla nightly and&#8230; What do you know&#8230; There&#8217;s a checkbox for the option and it works great. Whee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I got the SOCKS thing figured out. It seems that current builds of Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and IE (?!?!) don&#8217;t support doing name resolution on the remote side of a SOCKS proxy. They all try to resolve the name locally, then use SOCKS for the actual connection itself. That just does&#8217;t make sense to\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-6978","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\/6978","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=6978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14651,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions\/14651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}