diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index f1a644fd4..e3ad05c69 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Stenberg (8 May 2009)
+- Constantine Sapuntzakis fixed bug report #2784055
+  (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2784055) identifying a problem to
+  connect to SOCKS proxies when using the multi interface. It turned out to
+  almost not work at all previously. We need to wait for the TCP connect to
+  be properly verified before doing the SOCKS magic.
+
+  There's still a flaw in the FTP code for this.
+
 Daniel Stenberg (7 May 2009)
 - Made the SO_SNDBUF setting for the data connection socket for ftp uploads as
   well. See change 28 Apr 2009.
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 31f89956a..3770f15be 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o Rejected SSL session ids are killed properly (for OpenSSL and GnuTLS builds)
  o Deal with the TFTP OACK packet
  o fixed roff mistakes in man pages
+ o use SOCKS proxy with the multi interface
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
diff --git a/lib/multi.c b/lib/multi.c
index 95d386f85..c5712f619 100644
--- a/lib/multi.c
+++ b/lib/multi.c
@@ -1055,9 +1055,16 @@ static CURLMcode multi_runsingle(struct Curl_multi *multi,
       easy->result = Curl_is_connected(easy->easy_conn,
                                        FIRSTSOCKET,
                                        &connected);
-      if(connected)
-        easy->result = Curl_protocol_connect(easy->easy_conn,
-                                             &protocol_connect);
+      if(connected) {
+        /* see if we need to do any proxy magic first once we connected */
+        easy->result = Curl_connected_proxy(easy->easy_conn);
+
+        if(!easy->result)
+          /* if everything is still fine we do the protocol-specific connect
+             setup */
+          easy->result = Curl_protocol_connect(easy->easy_conn,
+                                               &protocol_connect);
+      }
 
       if(CURLE_OK != easy->result) {
         /* failure detected */
diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index f177b7ffe..684358067 100644
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -2814,6 +2814,47 @@ ConnectionStore(struct SessionHandle *data,
   return i;
 }
 
+/* after a TCP connection to the proxy has been verified, this function does
+   the next magic step.
+
+   Note: this function (and its sub-functions) calls failf()
+
+*/
+CURLcode Curl_connected_proxy(struct connectdata *conn)
+{
+  CURLcode result = CURLE_OK;
+  struct SessionHandle *data = conn->data;
+
+  switch(data->set.proxytype) {
+#ifndef CURL_DISABLE_PROXY
+  case CURLPROXY_SOCKS5:
+  case CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME:
+    result = Curl_SOCKS5(conn->proxyuser, conn->proxypasswd,
+                         conn->host.name, conn->remote_port,
+                         FIRSTSOCKET, conn);
+    break;
+  case CURLPROXY_SOCKS4:
+    result = Curl_SOCKS4(conn->proxyuser, conn->host.name,
+                         conn->remote_port, FIRSTSOCKET, conn, FALSE);
+    break;
+  case CURLPROXY_SOCKS4A:
+    result = Curl_SOCKS4(conn->proxyuser, conn->host.name,
+                         conn->remote_port, FIRSTSOCKET, conn, TRUE);
+    break;
+#endif /* CURL_DISABLE_PROXY */
+  case CURLPROXY_HTTP:
+  case CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0:
+    /* do nothing here. handled later. */
+    break;
+  default:
+    failf(data, "unknown proxytype option given");
+      result = CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT;
+      break;
+  } /* switch proxytype */
+
+  return result;
+}
+
 static CURLcode ConnectPlease(struct SessionHandle *data,
                               struct connectdata *conn,
                               struct Curl_dns_entry *hostaddr,
@@ -2838,39 +2879,14 @@ static CURLcode ConnectPlease(struct SessionHandle *data,
                            &addr,
                            connected);
   if(CURLE_OK == result) {
-    /* All is cool, then we store the current information */
+    /* All is cool, we store the current information */
     conn->dns_entry = hostaddr;
     conn->ip_addr = addr;
 
-    switch(data->set.proxytype) {
-#ifndef CURL_DISABLE_PROXY
-    case CURLPROXY_SOCKS5:
-    case CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME:
-      result = Curl_SOCKS5(conn->proxyuser, conn->proxypasswd,
-                           conn->host.name, conn->remote_port,
-                           FIRSTSOCKET, conn);
-      break;
-    case CURLPROXY_SOCKS4:
-      result = Curl_SOCKS4(conn->proxyuser, conn->host.name,
-                           conn->remote_port, FIRSTSOCKET, conn, FALSE);
-      break;
-    case CURLPROXY_SOCKS4A:
-      result = Curl_SOCKS4(conn->proxyuser, conn->host.name,
-                           conn->remote_port, FIRSTSOCKET, conn, TRUE);
-      break;
-#endif /* CURL_DISABLE_PROXY */
-    case CURLPROXY_HTTP:
-    case CURLPROXY_HTTP_1_0:
-      /* do nothing here. handled later. */
-      break;
-    default:
-      failf(data, "unknown proxytype option given");
-      result = CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT;
-      break;
-    } /* switch proxytype */
-  } /* if result is ok */
-
-  if(result)
+    if(*connected)
+      result = Curl_connected_proxy(conn);
+  }
+  else
     *connected = FALSE; /* mark it as not connected */
 
   return result;
@@ -4761,8 +4777,6 @@ CURLcode Curl_done(struct connectdata **connp,
 
   Curl_expire(data, 0); /* stop timer */
 
-  Curl_getoff_all_pipelines(data, conn);
-
   if(conn->bits.done ||
      (conn->send_pipe->size + conn->recv_pipe->size != 0 &&
       !data->set.reuse_forbid &&
@@ -4773,6 +4787,8 @@ CURLcode Curl_done(struct connectdata **connp,
 
   conn->bits.done = TRUE; /* called just now! */
 
+  Curl_getoff_all_pipelines(data, conn);
+
   /* Cleanup possible redirect junk */
   if(data->req.newurl) {
     free(data->req.newurl);
diff --git a/lib/url.h b/lib/url.h
index 7e22b7397..35900812f 100644
--- a/lib/url.h
+++ b/lib/url.h
@@ -85,4 +85,6 @@ void Curl_reset_reqproto(struct connectdata *conn);
 #define CURL_DEFAULT_PROXY_PORT 1080 /* default proxy port unless specified */
 #define CURL_DEFAULT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE "rcmd" /* default socks5 gssapi service */
 
+CURLcode Curl_connected_proxy(struct connectdata *conn);
+
 #endif