diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index cbbe1971..599226ae 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-02-06  Micah Cowan  <micah@cowan.name>
+
+	* wget.ṫexi <Overview>: Remove references to no-longer-supported
+	socks library.
+
 2008-01-31  Micah Cowan  <micah@cowan.name>
 
 	* wget.texi: Ensure that license info appears in the info
diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index b0ef8084..8d1a1482 100644
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -167,11 +167,8 @@ download from where it left off.
 
 @item
 Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load, speed
-up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls.  However, if you are
-behind a firewall that requires that you use a socks style gateway,
-you can get the socks library and build Wget with support for socks.
-Wget uses the passive @sc{ftp} downloading by default, active @sc{ftp}
-being an option.
+up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls.  Wget uses the passive
+@sc{ftp} downloading by default, active @sc{ftp} being an option.
 
 @item
 Wget supports IP version 6, the next generation of IP.  IPv6 is