Closed Bug 295148 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

DNS over SOCKS (4a/5) not supported

Categories

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 134105

People

(Reporter: mozillabugzilla, Assigned: darin.moz)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050515 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050515 Firefox/1.0+

SOCKS 4a and 5 have support for connecting to a host by name, leaving the DNS
lookup for the SOCKS proxy. This is important for projects such as Tor
(http://tor.eff.org - an anonymous proxy system) because DNS requests can leak
the identity of webpages which the browser is accessing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Please always seacrh before you file a bug. This one is very easy to find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134105 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
V/dupe.
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