MCMrARM / revolution-irc

A modern Android IRC client. #revolutionirc on Libera.chat
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[Feature Request] SOCKS5 Proxy support on a server-by-server basis #285

Open dkoao opened 3 years ago

dkoao commented 3 years ago

Hello,

Revolution IRC does not currently have native proxy support, this prevents you from connecting to IRC servers that are available on Tor (which are useful if you want to run a small server to chat with friends, since it will protect you from casual attackers as v3 onion services aren't discoverable). Some services like Freenode also offer onion services to connect to if you want to hide your IP address.

Please note that this isn't a request for global proxy support. Proxying everything over Tor for example (instead of just onion IRC servers) is a bad idea because Tor will be used for clearnet IRC servers which will pass through exit nodes which, in their turn, introduce their fair share of problems.