Idea: reverse socks proxy

[Dan Kaminsky]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Markus Friedl <markus.r.friedl at arcor.de>wrote:

> 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).
>

It's not a very useful patch if it's server-side only.  Anything that
requires a client and a server to patch is fundamentally less useful than
something that just requires a client patch.  I wouldn't want to see a patch
like this in the codebase, for example, while I would want to see the
client-only version.

Meh.  Maybe I'll try to take a crack at this next week.

--Dan

P.S.  Sort of amazing to me that, ten years later, it's still the same krew
around here :)