gpg socks support autodetection?

Replying to ioerror:

Replying to tagnaq:

Replying to ioerror:

Bad news - if the GPG client has no SOCKS5 support and you try to use the SOCKS5 support it will fail badly.

This means we can not statically configure gpg to use socks5 proxies (in torbirdy).

I'm not sure of that but I understand the caution. I think that we just need to detect this (common) case and do something smart.

Can we build an autodetection for socks support and change enigmail's config acordingly?

• enable socks5 proxy in enigmail's gpg options iff we have socks support
• do not set the socks proxy if we have no support for it (set a non-existing http proxy to fail secure)

I don't like the idea of autodetection anymore we should have an http proxy and use one setup for all plattforms.

I assume currently probably less than 10 or 5% have proper socks support in their gpg installation.