I have a government client that has locked down all outgoing access for a web server except though a socks proxy.

It makes simple things really hard - like a links checker, package dependencies, remote servers or integrations with Google.

We can't even run test scenarios on the machine because we're also locked _out_ of the server. Instead, we rely on their IT department to run test scripts that we send them via email.

We were debugging an elastic server connection for 2 weeks that was working perfectly fine in their "QA". It's a horrible existence.