bug#53941: 27.2; socks + tor dont work with https

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > I'm really uncomfortable with installing these changes before the release
>> > branch is cut.  The changes are hardly trivial, some controversial even to
>> > my eyes, even though I'm no expert on network connections.
>>
>> Well, I myself am just about the furthest thing from (an expert), which
>> certainly doesn't comport well with dropping rash changes at the
>> eleventh hour. (That was rather disrespectful on my part, so shame on
>> me.) As such, if it's easier to revisit this once things settle down,
>> just ignore this email and I'll re-ping you sometime down the road.
>
> Yes, please do.  The branch is cut now, so if we agree on installing such
> changes on master, it's now up to you when to post another version of these
> changes with the requisite fixes.

Could we revisit this now?  It sounds like something we'd want to fix.