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| 4.1 putty 0.60 grammar (martin) | Proxying Local Host Connections (martin) | ||
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| If you set this option to //Auto// (the default), WinSCP will do something it considers appropriate for each type of proxy. Telnet, HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies will have host names passed straight to them; SOCKS4 proxies will not. | If you set this option to //Auto// (the default), WinSCP will do something it considers appropriate for each type of proxy. Telnet, HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies will have host names passed straight to them; SOCKS4 proxies will not. | ||
| - | The original SOCKS 4 protocol does not support proxy-side DNS. There is a protocol extension (SOCKS 4A) which does support it, but not all SOCKS 4 servers provide this extension. If you enable proxy DNS and your SOCKS 4 server cannot deal with it, this might be why. ((&puttydoccite)) | + | The original SOCKS 4 protocol does not support proxy-side DNS. There is a protocol extension (SOCKS 4A) which does support it, but not all SOCKS 4 servers provide this extension. If you enable proxy DNS and your SOCKS 4 server cannot deal with it, this might be why. |
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| + | ===== Proxying Local Host Connections ===== | ||
| + | Connections to the local host (the host name ''localhost'', and any loopback IP address) are not proxied by default. It is very unlikely that this behavior would ever cause problems, but if it does you can change it by enabling //Consider proxying local host connections//. ((&puttydoccite)) | ||