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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Sathyan, Arjonan" <Arjonan.Sathyan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: 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@xxxxxxxx)
>
That FAQ appears to be relating info for squid 1.1
The current FAQ is at
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
