On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Aleksandar Lazic <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently the socks protocol is not implemented in haproxy.
I was hoping someone had a patch "hidden". :) > What flow do you have in mind? I have a couple of use-cases in mind, like for example: * SOCKS4 in the backend, would allow HAProxy to route all backend traffic through a proper SOCKS4 proxy; this might be used as a poor-man variant of a tunnel, like for example via SSH; (if one makes HAProxy into a transparent proxy, it could even serve as a layer-7 firewall;) * SOCKS4 in the frontend, would allow HAProxy to act like a SOCKS4 proxy, and apply for example HTTP routing and filtering; (for example one configures HAProxy as a SOCKS4 proxy in a browser;) Basically it allows HAProxy to interoperate with other SOCKS4 proxies like SSH or Tor. Ciprian.
