grnorris Posted March 21, 2011 Report Posted March 21, 2011 I was trying to use Socks Proxy with uTorrent but my proxy kept telling me that uTorrent was making an Invalid Socks4 request with Socks 5. I did have uTorrent set to proxy via Socks 5 but, apparently it doesn't make the request properly.I'm using version 2.2.1 build 25110 (I update fairly regularly but I'm waiting a little while for the CanSecWest major patches and updates to come out).While searching for a similar thread I read that Socks won't allow for incoming connections which is confusing since I was able to download before but I went ahead and switched to HTTPS mode and it seems to be running at full (throttled) speed.
grnorris Posted April 28, 2011 Author Report Posted April 28, 2011 I posted this a while back and it's still a problem. I'm now using 3.0 Beta and I still receive the error when I enable Socks 5 but not socks 4. In the your-freedom error log it says something to the extent of there's an socks 4 request in socks 5 proxy. I'm not sure what advantage Socks 5 offers off hand but I get a lot better speeds overall when I don't get this error (thus using Socks 4).
Firon Posted May 16, 2011 Report Posted May 16, 2011 What SOCKS proxy server are you using? Perhaps what you're using doesn't handle SOCKS5 correctly.We used Dante and SS5 for our proxy testing and these can handle our SOCKS5 requests just fine. As far as I know, we're following the spec correctly, but perhaps there's something we got wrong.
grnorris Posted May 20, 2011 Author Report Posted May 20, 2011 What SOCKS proxy server are you using? Perhaps what you're using doesn't handle SOCKS5 correctly.We used Dante and SS5 for our proxy testing and these can handle our SOCKS5 requests just fine. As far as I know, we're following the spec correctly, but perhaps there's something we got wrong.I've been using your-freedom (your-freedom.net) and I've never read about the issue anywhere else. Usually it doesn't affect speeds to much but from time to time I'll see my speeds steeply decline and the message logs in the your-freedom client say it's because of the invalid request.
grnorris Posted May 20, 2011 Author Report Posted May 20, 2011 Have you tried contacting their support?I did send them a message before but that message seems to have been deleted. I searched through the forums (your-freedom) as well and found my old post on this starting on April 16, 2010 and ending April 30, 2010. I'm fairly sure they said it wasn't on their end.I did update both your-freedom and uTorrent (the newest 3.0 beta) recently so with any luck one of those updates will fix the issue but I'm not betting on it.
grnorris Posted May 20, 2011 Author Report Posted May 20, 2011 The exact error code was: unsupported address type 4 in SOCKS5 request: ...with .. being a long sequence of characters. I presume these to be the particular request ID so they shouldn't mean to much.I will send a message to their support now.
grnorris Posted May 27, 2011 Author Report Posted May 27, 2011 I just got a response back and apparently it was something on there end (though I could have sworn they said otherwise before). My apologies if I seemed rude to you it was just really annoying. Perhaps a small change for proxy support could be made though. They said the problem occurred (they claim to have fixed it) when their servers had more than 500 concurrent web connections. uTorrent probably couldn't do much about those kinds of errors but most of your-freedoms proxies (and probably any other similar proxy system) tends to have a limit to the number of connections it can have at a time. As it stands I can limit uTorrents connections to an extent but the maximum number of connections is only for the torrents upload/download streams and doesn't include tracker connections (unless I've missed an option somewhere).Again sorry for the misunderstanding.
Firon Posted May 31, 2011 Report Posted May 31, 2011 That's not a bad suggestion, really. Would help prevent overloading proxies.
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