Code Review 6964547: Impossible to set useV4 in SocksSocketImpl
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Jan 12 07:36:05 PST 2011
Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> Can I also suggest that Proxy.Type.SOCKS gets deprecated and
> Proxy.Type.SOCKS4 and Proxy.Type.SOCKS5 get introduced instead?
>
> Just about every application treats SOCKS 4 and 5 as different proxy
> types, only Java tries to lump them together.
>
>
I wonder if SOCKS4 is still widely used as SOCKS5 has been around since
1996. Just wondering as it might not be worth doing much on it now.
-Alan
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