Socks 5 proxy not working

Anki Syncing & AnkiWeb
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First of all, documentation section about proxy is not clear, so I’ve set both HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY env variables to http://localhost:8089. I’ve got ss-local binary running on my local port 8089 and it is functioning, checked with firefox.

However, when proxy is configured in this way, Anki gives strange error

update check failed: A network error occurred.

Error details: error sending request for url ()

Using Debian 12.8 and Anki 24.11

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If it’s a socks proxy, perhaps you need socks5:// or similar.

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Prefixing url with socks5:// instead of http:// gives exactly same error

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But changing HTTPS_PROXY url to socks5://127.0.0.1:8089 (using IP addr instead of localhost name) did help. Thanks