Question: I2Pd and SOCKS

[o0nd7ots]

Original question

What versions of SOCKS does I2Pd support, both for staying within the anonymity network and outproxy?

The default config leads be to believe that for outproxy only 4 is supported (not even 4a).
The issues make me believe that for internal traffix 5 is okay.
I did not know where to look for documentation for this.

What does work (summary)

Destination	v4	v4a	v5
I2P	useless	works	works
clearnet	works	probably1	to be implemented

Footnotes

1. This is based on majestrate's statement ↩

[Vort]

Both SOCKS 4a and SOCKS 5 are fine for accessing internal addresses with 127.0.0.1:4447.

[o0nd7ots]

Thanks. Do you know about outproxy traffic and v4 for internal?

Also, where could I find this?

[Vort]

I2P do not have IP addresses for internal resources.
That's why SOCKS 4 (without a) makes no sense.

Do you know about outproxy traffic

I did not tested outproxies.
But I heard that developers want to fix SOCKS support for them.
It's like plans for indefinite future.

[orignal]

SOCK4 for outproxy now, SOCK5 will be implemented later

[o0nd7ots]

@orignal
Thanks. Does 4a work?

[orignal]

I don't know. Better to ask @majestrate

[majestrate]

@orignal Thanks. Does 4a work?

probably.

[o0nd7ots]

If this is the best we can get then this issue can be closed.
I will try to work that info in to the documentation/readme.

[Alfa21tpp]

if it can be of any use, in my privoxy configuration I use this:
forward-socks4a .i2p 127.0.0.1:4447 .
so v4a is verified, imo

[orignal]

Yes, incoming socks4 works, the recent change is about upstream proxy only