Usage
SOCKS is a de facto standard for circuit-level gateways.
Another use of SOCKS is as a circumvention tool, allowing to bypass Internet filtering to access content otherwise blocked by governments, workplaces, schools and country specific web services.
Some SSH clients support dynamic port forwarding that allows the user to create a local SOCKS proxy. This can free the user from the limitations of connecting only to a predefined remote port and server.
The Tor onion proxy software presents a SOCKS interface to its clients.
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