Idea: reverse socks proxy

Markus Friedl markus.r.friedl at arcor.de
Fri Jan 8 08:31:52 EST 2010


On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 05:44:17PM +0100, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> Couldn't we just do exactly what we did to -L, where the listener is  
> lazy in determining socket destination and uses the SOCKS parser for  
> determining target?

yes, this is what this patch is doing, but just on the server side.
as i said before, this could be done on the client side, too, but
requires much more code changes (and risks breaking other things).


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