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Re: Why resolve the dns locally when using a socks5 proxy
From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:01:39 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:01:39 +0200 (CEST)
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019, Qiying Wang via curl-users wrote:
> It define's a boolean variable socks5_resolve_local, which is a flag to
> decide whether to resolve dns locally. Apparently when the proxy is a socks5
> proxy, it would be true.
Socks5 allows the name to be resolved locally or remotely. curl supports both
ways.
> As far as I'm concerned, it's better for curl to have this feature.
It already does. See --socks5-hostname or specify the proxy with --proxy
socks5h://host.example.com/.
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