[PATCH] SOCKS4A support

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Tue Jul 1 20:39:58 EST 2008


On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

> This provides SOCKS4A support, which allows a SOCKS4 client to provide a
> host name instead of an IP address. It indicates that it's doing so by
> using a known-invalid IP address 0.0.0.x (where x != 0), and then
> appending the NUL-terminated hostname to the connection request.

How many programs speak SOCKS4A and not SOCKS5?

-d



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