[guardian-dev] supporting SOCKS on Android via a custom SocketFactory

Thu Sep 22 11:50:14 EDT 2016

Mark Murphy:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, at 05:48, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> Could we use this approach in NetCipher?  
> 
> IIRC, NetCipher has SOCKS support. The exception is with OkHttpClient,
> and that's because Square is not explicitly supporting SOCKS with
> OkHttp3:
> 
> https://github.com/square/okhttp/issues/2315

I looked through this again, SOCKS proxies where problematic until
recently.  Seems like Marshmallow or newer is required, I haven't found
an exact reference yet.  But here's a blast from the past from this very
list:

http://guardian-dev.mayfirst.narkive.com/aBGKAwSG/netcipher-and-httpurlconnection

.hc

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