socksproxy

This program allows arbitrary TCP connections to be forwarded via a SOCKS4 proxy. It is intended for use with OpenSSH's implementation of dynamic port forwarding.

To use it, run make and you should end up with socksproxy.so. You should set the following environment variables, then run your program.

Variable	Function	Default
LD_PRELOAD	The full path to socksproxy.so	No default
SOCKS_PROXY_NETWORK	The range of addresses that should be tunnelled in the form: aa.bb.cc.dd/nn	No default
SOCKS_PROXY_USERNAME	The username to offer to the SOCKS4 proxy.	$USER
SOCKS_PROXY_PORT	The port number of the SOCKS4 proxy.	1080

Tips

Some broken programs will transfer unqualified domain names to the client. Then client will then qualify them using its search path, which is not appropriate. Set the environment variable LOCALDOMAIN to override the client's behaviour.
Some programs, such as Mozilla, use IPC to communicate with an existing window to save running multiple copies of the program. Make sure you apply the LD_PRELOAD hack to the first instance to be started.

Download

Source:	socksproxy-0.4.tar.bz2 Browse sources
Binaries:	socksproxy.so 32bit socksproxy.so 64bit

Peter Benie <peterb@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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