Re: [squid-users] Squid as a SOCKS Proxy

Perhaps Squid is unable to run as a socks server, but there is nothing at
all preventing you from running a socks server on the same host, different
port. i.e. Socks on port 1080 and Squid on 8080 or 80 even.

.vp

>From: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
>To: "Sathyan, Arjonan" <Arjonan.Sathyan@spansion.com>
>CC: squid-users@squid-cache.org
>Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid as a SOCKS Proxy
>Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:54:00 +1300 (NZDT)
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Please let me know whether Squid can be used as a SOCKS Proxy... I found
> > an article in unix.org, kindly let me know whether the below given
> > information was true... Can I use Squid as s SOCKS Proxy server?
>
>No. Squid is an HTTP proxy, it does not receive SOCKS requests.
>
> > Reference:
> >
> > URL: http://www.unix.org.ua/squid/FAQ-4.html
> >
> > 4.10 Does Squid support Socks?
> > We would like to use Squid, but we need it to use socks to connect to
> > the world outside our firewall.
> >
> > No changes are necessary to use Squid with socks5. Simply add the usual
> > -Dbind=SOCKSbind etc., to the compile line and -lsocks to the link line.
> >
> > --- Carson Gaspar (carson@cugc.org)
> >
>
>That FAQ appears to be relating info for squid 1.1
>
>The current FAQ is at
>http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
>
Received on Wed Oct 31 2007 - 09:46:27 MDT