John Galea's Socks Page
So you wonder what the heck are socks and why do I care?
In a number of internet connection situations, such as firewall
protected companies, the only connection without a socks server is
to local intranet sites. Meaning you can not get out to external sites.
To do this you need to go through a Proxy, Socks server or some other
gateway to the real internet. The trouble with this is that each and
every application you want to use needs to have been written compatible with
socks, and you have to configure each and every app with the socks server
in your configuration.
If you socksify the TCPIP stack in your machine, then the default path
out of your machine becomes a socks server. As such each and every app
does not need to code for socks, and you only configure your socks server
address once. This is a tremendous improvement in firewall protected situations.
How to socksify your 32 bit Win95 TCPIP stack
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