Re: Is SOCKS a thing of the past?

From: Berk S. Daemon (someone@somewhere.com)
Date: 03/23/02 

From: "Berk S. Daemon" <someone@somewhere.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:52:41 GMT

"NT Canuck" <ntcanuck@hot_mail.com> wrote in message
news:d6Qm8.192834$kb.10698560@news1.calgary.shaw.ca...
> "Berk S. Daemon" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
> news:XhPm8.144514$eb.7156840@news3.calgary.shaw.ca...
>
> > He means SOCKS as in SOCKS 4/5, not Sockets or Winsock.
>
> AFAIK, socks (4/5) are protocols that in Windows require
> a Winsock based application in order to run.
>
> 'Seek and ye shall find'
> NT Canuck

SOCKS isn't limited to windows.
SOCKS is a standard, such as RFC1928 (SOCKS 5) - a type of Proxy that works
in mid-upper layers.
Winsock is a Windows API for TCP sockets. Not related to SOCKS in of itself.
But, for socket communications to work with windows and a SOCKS proxy,
you're right.
They would of course require the windows winsock API as the intermediary
interface to the SOCKS proxy (SOCKS being 100% optional)
SOCKS isn't required for windows or winsock itself. As an example, you can
do NAT (Network Address Translation) without the need of SOCKS (proxy).

ICS in windows is MS is a version of NAT, but limited (circuit level proxy -
works at layer 3). Aside from that there's application level proxy's too
(layer 1-4) and SOCKS is kinda in-between with support for authentication
for 'socket' level communications.

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