socks

Socks proxy (ver 5)

http://github.com/vincenthz/hs-socks

Version on this page:0.5.6
LTS Haskell 24.18:0.6.1
Stackage Nightly 2025-11-04:0.6.1
Latest on Hackage:0.6.1

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BSD-3-Clause licensed and maintained by Vincent Hanquez
This version can be pinned in stack with:socks-0.5.6@sha256:074bad28bedd0b3924b6fb2cea04fd2ed330d1dbd0dea3c87dbb4173c9dcffa1,1230

Module documentation for 0.5.6

Used by 3 packages in nightly-2018-02-27(full list with versions):
connection, git-annex, network-anonymous-tor

Socks

Haskell library implementation of the SOCKS 5 protocol.

TODO

  • more socks authentification methods: only no authentification is supported for now.
  • support of socks’ bind for server to client connection (like FTP).
  • add socks4a and socks4 support.

Usage

See Example.hs for really simple and straighforward example. The main api is only 2 calls:

  • socksConnectAddr which connect to a SockAddr (SockAddrInet or SockAddrInet6). The name resolution is left on client side.
  • socksConnectName which connect to a fully qualified domain name “www.example.com”. The proxy server will do the name resolution.