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Thank you both for clarifying. Ok, so both SOCKS and HTTP proxies can do remote DNS lookups. The question is then: why is Firefox not giving me TRANSPARENT_PROXY_RESOLVES_HOST if this is the case? I guess because having HTTP proxies specified _only_ remote DNS resolution is done. There is no point ...

by the way, as far as I know, unlike socks proxies, HTTP proxies always do DNS query remotely? I thought it was the opposite. I think HTTP don't do remote DNS while SOCKS can. SOCKS5 can do local and remote DNS resolution and if you specified HTTP proxies then DNS resolution is done remotely only (...