elpher SOCKS5 not working

elpher SOCKS5 not working

[Christopher Howard]

Hi, I want to use elpher as my gemini client, but I also want to route my connections through my TOR SOCKS5 service, and this is not working. E.g., in IceCat I can use FoxyProxy to route my http(s) connections via SOCKS5 to the my local TOR service running on port 9050, and this works fine. Emacs and elpher seems to have the same capability but it is not working.

First, I set these variables through Custom:

```
 '(elpher-socks-always t)
 '(socks-server '("Default server" "socks" 9050 5))
```

But when I navigate to a gemini capsule, I get just this error:

```
---- ERROR -----

When attempting to retrieve gemini://gem.librehacker.com/:
Error initiating connection to server

----------------

Press 'u' to return to the previous page.
```

I tried also setting this variable, which seemed possibly relevant, but it didn't help:

```
 '(url-proxy-services '(("gemini" . "127.0.0.1:9050")))
```

BTW, the error happens immediately, so I know it isn't a connection timing out.

-- 
📛 Christopher Howard
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Re: elpher SOCKS5 not working

[Christopher Howard]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> Hi, I want to use elpher as my gemini client, but I also want to route my connections through my TOR SOCKS5 service, and this is not working. E.g., in IceCat I can use FoxyProxy to route my http(s) connections via SOCKS5 to the my local TOR service running on port 9050, and this works fine. Emacs and elpher seems to have the same capability but it is not working.
>
> First, I set these variables through Custom:
>
> ```
>  '(elpher-socks-always t)
>  '(socks-server '("Default server" "socks" 9050 5))
> ```
>
> But when I navigate to a gemini capsule, I get just this error:
>
> ```
> ---- ERROR -----
>
> When attempting to retrieve gemini://gem.librehacker.com/:
> Error initiating connection to server
>
> ----------------
>
> Press 'u' to return to the previous page.
> ```
>
> I tried also setting this variable, which seemed possibly relevant, but it didn't help:
>
> ```
>  '(url-proxy-services '(("gemini" . "127.0.0.1:9050")))
> ```
>
> BTW, the error happens immediately, so I know it isn't a connection timing out.

I am needing to determine if problem is in elpher or in the Emacs socks implementation. Is there any Emacs feature or package known to use SOCKS5 through socks.el? Or some test code?

-- 
Christopher Howard

Re: elpher SOCKS5 not working

[Joel Reicher]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> Hi, I want to use elpher as my gemini client, but I also want to 
> route my connections through my TOR SOCKS5 service, and this is 
> not working. E.g., in IceCat I can use FoxyProxy to route my 
> http(s) connections via SOCKS5 to the my local TOR service 
> running on port 9050, and this works fine. Emacs and elpher 
> seems to have the same capability but it is not working.
>
> First, I set these variables through Custom:
>

[...]

>  '(socks-server '("Default server" "socks" 9050 5))

Your SOCKS server is called "socks"?

Shouldn't it be "localhost" if you're using TOR? (Please note I 
don't use TOR)

Cheers,

        - Joel

Re: elpher SOCKS5 not working

[Christopher Howard]

>>  '(socks-server '("Default server" "socks" 9050 5))
>
> Your SOCKS server is called "socks"?
>
> Shouldn't it be "localhost" if you're using TOR? (Please note I don't
> use TOR)
>
> Cheers,
>
>        - Joel

Thank you, it is working now that I have fixed this setting. I am enjoying browsing Geminispace from within Emacs. My appreciation goes out to all who have put work into socks.el and elpher.el.

-- 
Christopher Howard