Subject: bug#13833: 24.2.93; Proper SOCKS support

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 12:35:56 -0400

>> It would be great if all network primitives (open-network-stream and
>> friends) supported SOCKS.
> There is lisp/net/socks.el.  Unfortunately the implementation overwrites
> open-network-stream using defalias.  That is terrible.

Yes, that's a bug.

> Maybe add-function could be used here?

You mean add-advice?  Yes, that would be better at least.

        Stefan