how to use Socks4/5 Proxy Handlers in Netty Client (4.1) : <p>I need to configure socks proxy in Netty client (to request different sites via socks4 or 5 proxies).
Tried a lot of proxies from free socks lists (like www.socks-proxy.net, <a href="http://sockslist.net/" rel="noreferrer">http://sockslist.net/</a> etc) but with no luck:</p>

<pre><code>@Test
public void testProxy() throws Exception {
    final String ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36";
    final String host = "www.main.de";
    final int port = 80;

    Bootstrap b = new Bootstrap();
    b.group(new NioEventLoopGroup())
            .channel(NioSocketChannel.class)
            .handler(new ChannelInitializer&lt;SocketChannel&gt;() {
                @Override
                protected void initChannel(SocketChannel ch) throws Exception {
                    ChannelPipeline p = ch.pipeline();

                    p.addLast(new HttpClientCodec());
                    p.addLast(new HttpContentDecompressor());
                    p.addLast(new HttpObjectAggregator(10_485_760));
                    p.addLast(new ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter() {
                        @Override
                        public void channelActive(final ChannelHandlerContext ctx) throws Exception {
                            HttpRequest request = new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HTTP_1_1, GET, "/");
                            request.headers().set(HOST, host + ":" + port);
                            request.headers().set(USER_AGENT, ua);
                            request.headers().set(CONNECTION, CLOSE);

                            ctx.writeAndFlush(request);

                            System.out.println("!sent");
                        }

                        @Override
                        public void channelRead(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Object msg) throws Exception {
                            System.out.println("!answer");
                            if (msg instanceof FullHttpResponse) {
                                FullHttpResponse httpResp = (FullHttpResponse) msg;


                                ByteBuf content = httpResp.content();
                                String strContent = content.toString(UTF_8);
                                System.out.println("body: " + strContent);

                                finish.countDown();
                                return;
                            }

                            super.channelRead(ctx, msg);
                        }

                        @Override
                        public void exceptionCaught(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Throwable cause) throws Exception {
                            cause.printStackTrace(System.err);
                            ctx.close();
                            finish.countDown();
                        }
                    });

                    p.addLast(new Socks4ProxyHandler(new InetSocketAddress("149.202.68.167", 37678)));
                }
            });

    b.connect(host, port).awaitUninterruptibly();
    System.out.println("!connected");

    finish.await(1, MINUTES);
}
</code></pre>

<p>The connection hangs, resets or getting some strange exceptions.
What's wrong?
Proxy support added to Netty since 4.1 (now there is a 4.1CR, tried it and 4.1b7-8 before)</p>
