Thus said Warren Young on Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:45:33 -0600:

> It's basically a  dead protocol these days. There is  no reason Fossil
> should implement it. Wrappers like tsocks  are indeed the right way to
> use SOCKS in 2015.

I don't think it's exactly dead yet. I still find it quite convenient to
use with browsers and an SSH tunnel. Setting up a SOCKS proxy tunnel via
SSH is extremely more simple/easy than setting up a VPN.

But I certainly agree that Fossil needn't support it.

Andy
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