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SOCKS is an Internet Protocol that allows Client-server applications to transparently use the services of a network firewall. SOCKS is an Abbreviation for "SOCKetS" {Link without Title} . Clients behind a Firewall wanting to access exterior servers connect to a SOCKS Proxy Server instead. This proxy server controls the eligibility of the client to access the external server and passes the request on to the server. The protocol was originally developed by David Koblas and then extended to version 4 by Ying-Da Lee of NEC. Unofficial SOCKS 4a extensions adds support for DNS names to resolve names with SOCKS server. The current version 5 of the protocol, RFC 1928, extends the previous version by supporting UDP , authentication and IPv6 . According to the OSI Model it is an intermediate layer between the Application Layer and the Transport Layer . SOCKS 4 PROTOCOL A typical SOCKS 4 connection request looks like this (each number is one byte):
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