diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b9222bc8..de9a8208 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3266,7 +3266,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "sync_wrapper",
  "tokio 1.40.0",
  "tokio-rustls",
- "tokio-socks",
  "tokio-util",
  "tower-service",
  "url 2.5.2",
@@ -4097,18 +4096,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio 1.40.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tokio-socks"
-version = "0.5.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0d4770b8024672c1101b3f6733eab95b18007dbe0847a8afe341fcf79e06043f"
-dependencies = [
- "either",
- "futures-util",
- "thiserror",
- "tokio 1.38.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-sync"
 version = "0.1.8"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5eda2036..68a3b4b7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ opt-level = "z"
 
 [features]
 use-synonyms-search = ["thesaurus/static"]
-default = ["memory-cache", "socks"]
+default = ["memory-cache"]
 dhat-heap = ["dep:dhat"]
 memory-cache = ["dep:moka"]
 redis-cache = ["dep:redis", "dep:base64"]
@@ -182,4 +182,4 @@ compress-cache-results = ["dep:async-compression", "dep:cfg-if"]
 encrypt-cache-results = ["dep:chacha20poly1305", "dep:chacha20"]
 cec-cache-results = ["compress-cache-results", "encrypt-cache-results"]
 experimental-io-uring = ["actix-web/experimental-io-uring"]
-use-non-static-synonyms-search = ["thesaurus"]
\ No newline at end of file
+use-non-static-synonyms-search = ["thesaurus"]
diff --git a/src/config/parser.rs b/src/config/parser.rs
index e51f5ed2..5d821c3d 100644
--- a/src/config/parser.rs
+++ b/src/config/parser.rs
@@ -123,12 +123,13 @@ impl Config {
             _ => parsed_cet,
         };
 
-                let proxy_opt = globals.get::<_, Option<String>>("proxy")?;
+        let proxy_opt = globals.get::<_, Option<String>>("proxy")?;
         let proxy = proxy_opt.and_then(|proxy_str| {
             Proxy::all(proxy_str).ok().and_then(|_| {
                 log::error!("Invalid proxy url, defaulting to no proxy.");
                 None
             })
+        });
 
         Ok(Config {
             port: globals.get::<_, u16>("port")?,