Re: [squid-users] squid behind a socks firewall

SOCKS is a general application level proxy and firewall traversal
protocol. Defined by Internet RFC 1928, and is proposed to becoming an
Internet Standard. Meant for use in application level firewalls.

Supports just about any imagineable protocol and various methods of
authentication, but requires the client to have SOCKS support, and
cannot do caching.

For more information, see http://www.socks.nec.com/aboutsocks.html

For a free implementation, see Dante <http://www.inet.no/dante/>

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Joerg Fritsch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> could you pls explain to me what socks is ??
> Is it kinda proxy firewall ??
> 
> Thanks,
> --Joerg