Re: [tor-dev] .i2p address support in torsocks

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 5:58 PM, David Goulet dgoulet@ev0ke.net wrote:

For now, it would only be .i2p address support (like .onion). In torsocks, it's not that difficult to support both addressing.

Does I2P's SOCKS proxy work in a way that's similar to Tor? Other proxies in I2P are protocol-specific — e.g., ports 4444/4445 for HTTP(S) and 6668 for IRC. I am quite sure that protocol-specific local I2P proxies like HTTP and IRC strip sensitive information, so providing the user with an easy access to .i2p services via SOCKS might be the wrong thing to do. The SOCKS information page [1] is rather scarce on details of what actually goes on inside the proxy, however.

[1] http://www.i2p2.de/socks.html