How do I use Tor with cURL (in Windows)?

Question

I have Vidalia installed, set up Chrome to use port 8118 for the proxy and I\'ve checked my connection through https://check.torproject.org/ but I\'m having difficulties getting

Answer 1

Use --socks5 (two dashes). -socks5 is not a valid parameter for curl, so curl is interpreting it as a hostname.

Answer 2

More updated response using socks5.

curl -v --socks5 localhost:9150 http://check.torproject.org/

So, using port 9150 for socks 5.

Answer 3

Turns out this entire mess was just syntax problems. A proper command is here:

curl -v --socks4a localhost:9050 http://check.torproject.org/

With TWO dashes before socks4a and ONE colon before the port.