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#2 socks proxy support?

open-wont-fix
nobody
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2006-06-16
2003-07-07
Anonymous
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The introduction page for ProxyTools states
that (internal?) support for socks might be
implemented in a future release.
That would be great!

Discussion

  • wayne

    wayne - 2003-10-25

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    Sorry ... wasn't watching these pages much recently (except
    CVS of course). I'm not sure what tool you want socks
    support in.
    If you mean statProxy, it's already there in test 18.
    If you mean localproxy, then it's already there 'sort of'
    (and has been there for years). You need to understand the
    concept of 'abstraction' to appreciate this, i think. If you
    tell LP to add a socks service, it will provide a localhost
    port 11080 (by default) socks 4 proxy socket.You can use
    this with socks 4 clients. This works the way many such
    services work in LP - via CONNECT through the commStrat 1,
    layer zero proxies. This covers 99% of users requirements
    for socks. If no such proxies are available, the socks
    service will be disabled.
    The socks support I (meant to) talk about adding is possible
    in different ways (adding socks code to LP and ensuring the
    outside connection was unblocked, non-censoring, etc.,
    adding code to start up ssh -D, etc.). I still haven't seen
    a good reason for any of these other approaches.
    Convince me. :-)

     
  • wayne

    wayne - 2006-06-16
    • status: open --> open-wont-fix
     

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