[PATCH] SOCKS4A support

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Jul 1 23:09:38 EST 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 20:39 +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> 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?

socat, for a start, which was the first thing I tried when I started
trying to use SOCKS. Not sure what else.

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dwmw2



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