curl/docs/cmdline-opts/socks5.md
Viktor Szakats 1fb734bc2d
docs: tidy-up scheme references
After this patch `://` schemes are lowercase and enclosed in backticks.

Also:
- docs/libcurl/libcurl-multi.md: drop a stray C code fence.
- docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.md: replace single/double quotes with
  Markdown markup where applicable.

Ref: #21646

Closes #21674
2026-05-19 16:55:45 +02:00

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Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. curl socks5 <host[:port]> SOCKS5 proxy on given host + port 7.18.0 proxy single
socks5-hostname
socks4a
proxy socks4 socks4a socks5-hostname
--socks5 proxy.example:7000 $URL
--socks5 localhost/path/unix-domain $URL

--socks5

Use the specified SOCKS5 proxy - but resolve the hostname locally. If the port number is not specified, it is assumed at port 1080.

To specify the proxy on a Unix domain socket, use localhost for host and append the absolute path to the domain socket. For example: socks5://localhost/path/to/socket.sock (the scheme may be omitted).

This option overrides any previous use of --proxy, as they are mutually exclusive.

This option is superfluous since you can specify a socks5 proxy with --proxy using a socks5:// protocol prefix. (Added in 7.21.7)

--preproxy can be used to specify a SOCKS proxy at the same time --proxy is used with an HTTP/HTTPS proxy (added in 7.52.0). In such a case, curl first connects to the SOCKS proxy and then connects (through SOCKS) to the HTTP or HTTPS proxy.

This option does not work with FTPS or LDAP.