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Re: socks4a for curl?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 22:18:53 +0100 (CET)

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Manfred Schwarb wrote:

> How about supporting socks4a? It's socks4 without hostname resolving, see
> http://socks.permeo.com/protocol/socks4a.protocol.

Sure, it seems like it would fit in among curl's abilities!

> It' very similar to socks4, just set destination IP to 0.0.0.1 and append
> the destination domain name to the socks header. Implementation would need
> only a handful of code lines, so I guess there would be no big maintenance
> issue.

Yes, it should probably not be a lot of extra code.

> I could do a first try to implement it, but as I'm not very fluent in
> programming c, you would probably have to polish/check/correct it.

I'll offer my reviews/comments on any attempts implementing this!

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Received on 2007-02-03