I just want to add a potential gotcha that bit me in the past: At least with curl (or any library that uses curl under the hood) you have to be very careful to

I just want to add a potential gotcha that bit me in the past: At least with curl (or any library that uses curl under the hood) you have to be very careful to specify the scheme as socks5h:// with a letter h at the end, not just socks5. Otherwise the hostname lookup would happen directly through the client rather than the proxy. https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_PROXY.html https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_PROXY.html