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socks5-client
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SOCKS v5 client socket implementation in JavaScript for Node.js.
Original code forked from node-socksified.
Look at socks5-http-client or socks5-https-client for an example.
Copyright (c) 2012 Matthew Caruana Galizia. See LICENSE.
Portions of this code are copyright (c) 2011 Valentin Háloiu.
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SOCKS v5 client socket implementation.
The npm package socks5-client receives a total of 11,752 weekly downloads. As such, socks5-client popularity was classified as popular.
We found that socks5-client 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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