Use Case

Support for socks5 proxy is an enhancement not needed by all users of the driver. We could consider moving socks to an optional peer dependency improving total package install size, code import time and memory usage.

User Impact

• Users of socks proxies would need to install this dependency themselves, this would be a significant behavior change, so we would want to confine this change to a major version bump.

Dependencies

• N/A

Unknowns

• Is this a breaking change we should do as part of v6?
• Do we document working with socks 5 outside of API docs? – No

• • How should we make this visible to users?

Acceptance Criteria

Implementation Requirements

• Document outlining pros and cons of making the peer optional dependency, with recommended path forward.

• • Address the unknowns in the doc.
• Team agreement on path forward.

Testing Requirements

• To be addressed in follow-up ticket.

Documentation Requirements

• TBD, dependent on related open question.

Follow Up Requirements

• File a separate ticket for implementation if we decide to make it optional.
• Mark new ticket as DevTools changes needed when it is determined whether we would do this or not.