[Psi-devel] socks4(a) support

[Hal Rottenberg]

can you give a compelling reason to add support for an older version
of a protocol for which we already support?  doesn't make sense to me.

On 11/8/06, matthias sweertvaegher <gmatti3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to try out socks4 support. I know there exist socksifiers,
> but in my case, I never got it working and it is an extra hassle
> anyway.. I would like Psi to be on par with other clients in this aspect.
>
> I just had a quick look at the specification on http://socks.permeo.com
> and noticed that socks4 implementation looks quite straightforward and
> easy to implement. So I'd like to try and add it to psi. Unless anybody
> else feels more interested, but I guess not since it hasn't been
> implemented yet during all these years ;)
>
> Since I don't know Psi's code structure, I thought it's maybe easiest to
> get started by changing the existing SocksClient class in socks.h to
> implement socks4 instead of socks5. That way I don't have to change the
> gui or any other classes except the socks class. Extending the current
> class seems not so easy as socks4 is much less complicated than socks5.
>
> Any better suggestions?
> Any pointers to relevant code? found connector.h and socks.h, maybe that
> will do.. :)
>
> oh, and, I thought Iris was a component which will be used for p2p
> chatting (Bonjour style). Is this correct?
>
>
> tia
>
> matthias
>
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