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SOCKS protocol version 5 server and client implementations for node.js
SOCKS protocol version 5 server and client implementations for node.js
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npm install node-socksv5
import {Server, Auth} from "node-socksv5";
const srv = new Server();
srv.listen(1080, 'localhost', () => {
console.log('SOCKS server listening on port 1080');
});
srv.useAuth(Auth.none());
import {Server, Auth} from "node-socksv5";
const srv = new Server();
srv.listen(1080, 'localhost', () => {
console.log('SOCKS server listening on port 1080');
});
srv.useAuth(srv.useAuth(Auth.userPass((username, password) => {
if (username === 'nodejs' && password === 'rules!') {
return Promise.resolve();
} else {
return Promise.reject();
}
}));
import {Server, Auth} from "node-socksv5";
const srv = new Server({}, (info, accept, deny) => {
if (info.destination.port === 80) {
accept();
} else {
deny();
}
});
srv.listen(1080, 'localhost', () => {
console.log('SOCKS server listening on port 1080');
});
srv.useAuth(Auth.none());
import {Server, Auth} from "node-socksv5";
const srv = new Server({}, (info, accept, deny) => {
if (info.destination.port === 80) {
const socket = await accept();
var body = 'Hello ' + info.source.ip + '!\n\nToday is: ' + (new Date());
socket.end([
'HTTP/1.1 200 OK',
'Connection: close',
'Content-Type: text/plain',
'Content-Length: ' + Buffer.byteLength(body),
'',
body
].join('\r\n'));
} else {
accept();
}
});
srv.listen(1080, 'localhost', () => {
console.log('SOCKS server listening on port 1080');
});
srv.useAuth(Auth.none());
import {Client, Auth} from "node-socksv5";
const client = new Client({
proxy: {
host: "127.0.0.1",
port: 1080,
},
destination: {
host: "google.com",
port: 80,
},
auths: [ Auth.none() ],
}, (socket) => {
console.log('>> Connection successful');
socket.write('GET /node.js/rules HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n');
socket.pipe(process.stdout);
});
FAQs
SOCKS protocol version 5 server and client implementations for node.js
The npm package node-socksv5 receives a total of 190 weekly downloads. As such, node-socksv5 popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that node-socksv5 demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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