 How to use and setup socks proxy
Using SOCKS Proxies
At present time there exist 2 versions of the SOCKS protocol: 4 and 5. The 4th version, as it appeared earlier, is more widespread. However, now the 5th version is also supported by many popular programs such as ICQ (old ICQ versions, in general, could use only SOCKS proxies), Napster, AudioGalaxy, EeDoonkey2000 (MP3 files downloaders) etc. Generally speaking, as a SOCKS proxy can "proxy" any TCP / UDP protocol, it could be used also by mail programs, but they do not do it. Therefore, for such programs (which cannot work with socks) there was developed a special software automatically enabling TCP and UDP networking client applications to traverse a SOCKS server.
The most popular program is the SocksCap . It allows to capture all traffic of a program and to route it onto a SOCKS proxy 4 or 5.
SOCKS Proxy Chaining
As SOCKS proxies transfer data between computers without changes, it easily allows to create chains of SOCKS proxy servers of arbitrary length. However, for creation of these chains it is necessary to use special programs, as usual software is capable to use only one SOCKS proxy.
The SocksChain program, allowing to create SOCKS chains and to control chains of SOCKS proxies. With its help you can work with chains of SOCKS proxies of any length.
Connection of various types proxies into a chain
SOCKS proxies can be united into a chain with other types of proxy servers (HTTP and CGI). But they should be in the appointed place of this chain, namely, in the beginning.
You can create the following types of chains:
SOCKS proxy >>>> HTTP proxy >>>> CGI proxy
SOCKS proxy >>>> HTTP proxy
HTTP proxy >>>> SOCKS proxy
SOCKS proxy >>>> CGI proxy
Also you can not create:
CGI proxy >>>> SOCKS proxy
What should you do, if there is already a corporate proxy server?
You can use a SOCKS proxy only if your corporate proxy is a SOCKS proxy. Otherwise you can hardly manage to use external SOCKS proxies.
How to check mail in mail programs (such as Outlook) via SOCKS proxies?
Mail programs in their majority do not allow using proxy servers. This feature is not built-in in them. However, as it was already mentioned above, a SOCKS proxy allows passing through itself any TCP protocols (including POP3 and SMTP). To use a socks proxy for getting a mail, one must use a special program (for example SocksCap). How to use these programs, it was already told above.
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