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2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Long: socks5-hostname
5Arg: <host[:port]>
6Help: SOCKS5 proxy, pass hostname to proxy
7Added: 7.18.0
8Category: proxy
9Multi: single
10See-also:
11  - socks5
12  - socks4a
13Example:
14  - --socks5-hostname proxy.example:7000 $URL
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16
17# `--socks5-hostname`
18
19Use the specified SOCKS5 proxy (and let the proxy resolve the hostname). If
20the port number is not specified, it is assumed at port 1080.
21
22To specify proxy on a Unix domain socket, use localhost for host, e.g.
23`socks5h://localhost/path/to/socket.sock`
24
25This option overrides any previous use of --proxy, as they are mutually
26exclusive.
27
28This option is superfluous since you can specify a socks5 hostname proxy with
29--proxy using a socks5h:// protocol prefix. (Added in 7.21.7)
30
31--preproxy can be used to specify a SOCKS proxy at the same time --proxy is
32used with an HTTP/HTTPS proxy (added in 7.52.0). In such a case, curl first
33connects to the SOCKS proxy and then connects (through SOCKS) to the HTTP or
34HTTPS proxy.
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