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Jimi
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      07-17-2003, 11:02 PM
(E-Mail Removed) (Jimi) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> Sorry for the "dummy" question. But can someone please explain to me
> (including technical details if possible) what exactly and how do
> SOCKS4, SOCKS5 and http-tunneling work?
>
> My understanding (most likely wrong) is that http-tunneling simply
> "packages" the data in a http friendly format so that firewall/proxy
> servers won't reject them. How does SOCKS differ from that?
>
> TIA


I think I answered my own question with some research from Google.
Http-tunneling is what I thought (packaging data with the http
protocol) through a proxy/firewall. Where SOCKS4/5 is an actual proxy
server itself (5 being the more secure of the two).
 
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