Apps and network tools lack reliable SOCKS proxy support
Developers and technically skilled users want to route downloads, SDK requests, tunnels, or network traffic through SOCKS proxies, but some tools lack the needed support or require patches and wrappers. The evidence shows people maintaining patches, asking how to wrap a tool, or wanting proxy configuration built into their workflow. The requests span different tools, so a standalone helper could reduce setup friction but would not replace every tool’s native support.
For developers and technically skilled users routing application traffic through proxies. Mentioned from May 2012 to Sep 2024 on GitHub.
6 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 5.7/10
- Frequency
- 7.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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We keep porting the socks support to new versions, and it is becoming rather annoying, but also sad
People can install a tun0 virtual interface that proxies traffic to their own censorship evasion proxy servers to handle it in a very flexible way with constantly changing needs of this field
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