diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index c29ce81ccc0..b560c133cfd 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -466,7 +466,10 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
 	if (curl_http_proxy) {
 		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXY, curl_http_proxy);
 #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x071800
-		if (starts_with(curl_http_proxy, "socks5"))
+		if (starts_with(curl_http_proxy, "socks5h"))
+			curl_easy_setopt(result,
+				CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME);
+		else if (starts_with(curl_http_proxy, "socks5"))
 			curl_easy_setopt(result,
 				CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);
 		else if (starts_with(curl_http_proxy, "socks4a"))