SOCKS proxy not working

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Created Jun ’15

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Is anyone else able to confirm that using ssh to provide a SOCKS proxy (-D) and then configuring the Mac to use it in sys prefs does not work in 10.11?

I am seeing odd behaviour with certain apps such as:

Twitter - posts load, but no images

App Store - unable to connect at all

Messages - unable to send images, but basic text is ok

Safari - no pages load

Chrome works fine, however.

Every time I try to establish a connection to something via SOCKS the following is logged in the syslog:

Jun 13 12:37:00 musclemass com.apple.WebKit.Networking[2182] <Error>: tcp_connection_destination_read_internal 5 not safe to enqueue read buffer variant request

Jun 13 12:37:08 musclemass Twitter[709] <Error>: tcp_connection_destination_read_internal 558 not safe to enqueue read buffer variant request

I'm guessing this is due to new restrictions/security features within the OS?

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cnitroy OP

Jun ’15

Happening to me as well. Same setup. SOCKS proxy does not work at all.

My socks proxy is running on the machine, not sure if that affects anything or not.

Edit: Does not appear to be a SIP/rootless issue. I disabled it and the SOCKs proxy still does not work. Other proxy types do though.

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Answer 2

cnitroy OP

Jun ’15

Beta 2 fixed my socks proxy issues.

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DavidYangDavid OP

Nov ’22

Same problem happens on macOS Ventura. My socks 5 proxy works fine on Firefox. But it does not work when I configure it in Preference --> Network --> Wi-Fi --> Details --> Proxies --> SOCKS proxy

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