Socks support in ws2_32

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Fri Jun 5 23:02:56 CDT 2009


Gabriele Greco wrote:
> I've added socks 4/5 support right inside of ws2_32 library...

very cool!

Juan wrote:
> The usual test is whether Windows supports something.  If Windows
> has SOCKS support in ws2_32, then certainly, we're interested.  If not,
> figuring out how Windows does it and adding support for that method is
> more likely to get accepted.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383996(VS.85).aspx
says Windows has SOCKS support in the 27KB Wsock32n.dll
The public API for using it is in wininet.dll.

Annoyingly, that all requires the app to be aware of socks.
- Dan



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