diff --git a/src/File.php b/src/File.php
index cf22f0633..da451ad3b 100644
--- a/src/File.php
+++ b/src/File.php
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ public function __construct(string $url, int $timeout = 10, int $redirects = 5,
             }
             if (!$force_fsockopen && function_exists('curl_exec')) {
                 $resolve = false; // FreshRSS
+                $proxy = $curl_options[CURLOPT_PROXY] ?? null; // FreshRSS
+                $proxy_type = $curl_options[CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE] ?? null; // FreshRSS
                 if (empty($curl_options[CURLOPT_PROXY] ?? null)) { // FreshRSS
                     $resolve = $this->get_curl_resolve_info($url);
                     if ($resolve === null) {
@@ -128,6 +130,52 @@ public function __construct(string $url, int $timeout = 10, int $redirects = 5,
                     if (!empty($resolve)) {
                         $curl_options[CURLOPT_RESOLVE] = $resolve; // Prevent DNS rebinding
                     }
+                } else { // FreshRSS
+                    defined('CURLPROXY_HTTPS') or define('CURLPROXY_HTTPS', 2);	// Compatibility cURL 7.51
+                    $proxy_scheme = null;
+                    switch ($proxy_type) {
+                        case CURLPROXY_HTTP:
+                            $proxy_scheme = 'http';
+                            break;
+                        case CURLPROXY_HTTPS:
+                            $proxy_scheme = 'https';
+                            break;
+                        case CURLPROXY_SOCKS4:
+                            $proxy_scheme = 'socks4';
+                            break;
+                        case CURLPROXY_SOCKS4A:
+                            $proxy_scheme = 'socks4a';
+                            break;
+                        case CURLPROXY_SOCKS5:
+                            $proxy_scheme = 'socks5';
+                            break;
+                        case CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME:
+                            $proxy_scheme = 'socks5h';
+                            break;
+                    };
+                    if ($proxy_scheme === null) {
+                        $this->error = 'Unsupported proxy type';
+                        $this->success = false;
+                        return;
+                    }
+                    $proxy_url = "$proxy_scheme://$proxy"; // CURLOPT_PROXY ($proxy) is formatted as user:pass@hostname:port, with the part before @ being optional
+                    $resolve = $this->get_curl_resolve_info($proxy_url, true);
+                    if ($resolve === null) {
+                        $this->error = 'Failed to fetch this URL, because the proxy’s IP is not in the allowlist [' .
+                            \SimplePie\Misc::url_remove_credentials($url) . '] [' .
+                            \SimplePie\Misc::url_remove_credentials($proxy_url) . ']';
+                        $this->success = false;
+                        return;
+                    } elseif ($resolve === false) {
+                        $this->error = 'Failed to resolve proxy hostname: ' . \SimplePie\Misc::url_remove_credentials($proxy_url);
+                        $this->success = false;
+                        return;
+                    }
+                    $curl_options[CURLOPT_PROXY] = $resolve; // Translate from a hostname:port value to ip:port, in order to prevent DNS rebinding
+                    if (defined('CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYHOST')) {
+                        // Available as of PHP 7.3.0 and cURL 7.52.0
+                        $curl_options[CURLOPT_PROXY_SSL_VERIFYHOST] = 0; // Skip verifying the hostname (a bit unsafe, but needed since there is no CURLOPT_RESOLVE equivalent for proxy hostnames)
+                    }
                 }
                 $this->method = \SimplePie\SimplePie::FILE_SOURCE_REMOTE | \SimplePie\SimplePie::FILE_SOURCE_CURL;
                 $fp = self::curlInit($url, $timeout, $headers, $useragent, $curl_options);
@@ -444,10 +492,27 @@ protected function on_http_response($response, array $curl_options = []): void
     /**
      * Event to allow inheriting classes to control fetching certain URLs.
      * @param string $url
-     * @return array<string>|null|false Returns a value for CURLOPT_RESOLVE as an array, null if no allowed IPs were found, false if the domain failed to resolve.
+     * @return array<string>|string|null|false Returns a value for CURLOPT_RESOLVE as an array, null if no allowed IPs were found, false if the domain failed to resolve. Can also be used for checking if the CURLOPT_PROXY value is allowed, by providing a proxy URL with the `for_proxy` parameter set to `true`. In that case, a string value will be returned with the hostname resolved to an IP if allowed.
      */
-    protected function get_curl_resolve_info(string $url)
+    protected function get_curl_resolve_info(string $url, bool $for_proxy = false)
     {
+        if ($for_proxy) {
+            $parsed = parse_url($url);
+            if ($parsed === false) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            $credentials = '';
+            $user = $parsed['user'] ?? null;
+            $pass = $parsed['pass'] ?? null;
+            if (is_string($user) && is_string($pass)) {
+                $credentials = "$user:$pass@";
+            }
+            $proxy = $parsed['host'] ?? '';
+            if (is_int($parsed['port'] ?? null)) {
+                $proxy .= ':' . $parsed['port'];
+            }
+            return $credentials . $proxy;
+        }
         return [];
     }