[Bitcoin-development] Anyone still using SOCKS4?

Wladimir laanwj at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 07:15:31 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Wladimir <laanwj at gmail.com> wrote:

> If no one screams fire, we plan on removing support for it in the next
> major release, for two reasons:
>
> - It would remove some crufty, hardly tested code paths
>
> - SOCKS5 offers better privacy as it allows DNS redirection

Another one:

- SOCKS5 supports IPv6

Last call...

Wladimir




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