On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Hang on, there's something fishy here. Will commit something soon to make
> things better. Stay tuned.

Try the current git version and it should work better when the socks proxy is
set with --proxy or an evironment variable.

The exact fix is this:

https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/17f343290c9888ab5f108b0e4c

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