Most proxies don't seem to work

[ufuksarp]

Most proxies don't work. Only a very low percentage of the ones that gets a pass on various proxy checkers seem to work. I also noticed the ones that work often have low, transparent, no anonymity.

When it doesn't work it does one of the following:

• Crashes right away with Windows error dialogue
• Throws some network error inside terminal
• Waits for a long time on "Login..." prompt then the program disappears without an error.

Windows 7 x64

[thedmd]

Thanks. I need to investigate this some day. By the nature of the issue it is not easy to reproduce issues.
Project is synced with base project every few years. Active development isn't likely to happen soon. I will accept PR's if somebody will be interested in addressing the issue.

Please try to avoid so called "free" proxies. I used some to test this very issue and amount of pharmacy products that reach my email was disturbing.

The best thing so far for me was to purchase proxy, just to be sure I will get secure connection. VPN can be utilized as a proxy too if somebody invest time to pursue this solution, as this is by most part network configuration problem.

[IoannisDZA]

Hello thedmd. The updated app works great! But, I cant seem to make socks5 proxy work. Is there any specific configuration that must be used or is it just impossible?

[thedmd]

In this port I'm using WinHTTP as a backend and it does not support SOCKS at all.
WinINet does support SOCKS4, but not SOCKS5. So in terms of native API's available for me I think there isn't much I can do.

I was not aware of this limitation. Sorry.

CURL seems to support it. It is possible to add new backend which use it. Preferably by loading libcurl.dll present next to pianobar. I could accept such change as an PR.