SOCKS4A/SOCKS5 proxy support?

[David Shaw]

On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:11 AM, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:43, jacob at appelbaum.net said:
> 
>> Are there any plans to add support to gpg for SOCKS5? Would such a thing
>> be a welcome patch?
> 
> Does Curl support SOCKS?  Then GnuPG should benefit from it directy.
> Well unless you are talking about Windows, where we don't build with
> Curl support.  

If your curl is recent enough (7.21.7 and later), then you can set the proxy to something like "socks5://your-proxy-here.example.com" and it should do the right thing.

(Except on Windows, like you said).

David