NAME

Net::SOCKS - a SOCKS client class

SYNOPSIS

Establishing a connection:

my $sock = new Net::SOCKS(socks_addr => '192.168.1.3',
               socks_port => 1080,
               user_id => 'the_user',
               user_password => 'the_password',
               force_nonanonymous => 1,
               protocol_version => 5);

# connect to finger port and request finger information for some_user
my $f= $sock->connect(peer_addr => '192.168.1.3', peer_port => 79);
print $f "some_user\n";    # example writing to socket
while (<$f>) { print }     # example reading from socket
$sock->close();

Accepting an incoming connection:

my $sock = new Net::SOCKS(socks_addr => '192.168.1.3',
               socks_port => 1080,
               user_id => 'the_user',
               user_password => 'the_password',
               force_nonanonymous => 1,
               protocol_version => 5);

my ($ip, $ip_dot_dec, $port) = $sock->bind(peer_addr => "128.10.10.11",
                       peer_port => 9999);

$f= $sock->accept();
print $f "Hi!  Type something.\n";    # example writing to socket
while (<$f>) { print }                # example reading from socket
$sock->close();

DESCRIPTION

my $sock = new Net::SOCKS(socks_addr => '192.168.1.3',
               socks_port => 1080,
               user_id => 'the_user',
               user_password => 'the_password',
               force_nonanonymous => 1,
               protocol_version => 5);

 To connect to a SOCKS server, specify the SOCKS server's
 hostname, port number, SOCKS protocol version, username, and
 password.  Username and password are optional if you plan
 to use a SOCKS server that doesn't require any authentication.
 If you would like to force the connection to be 
 nonanoymous, set the force_nonanonymous parameter.

my $f= $sock->connect(peer_addr => '192.168.1.3', peer_port => 79);

To connect to another machine using SOCKS, use the connect method.
Specify the host and port number as parameters.

my ($ip, $ip_dot_dec, $port) = $sock->bind(peer_addr => "192.168.1.3",
                       peer_port => 9999);

 If you wanted to accept a connection with SOCKS, specify the host
 and port of the machine you expect a connection from.  Upon
 success, bind() returns the ip address and port number that
 the SOCKS server is listening at on your behalf.

$f= $sock->accept();

 If a call to bind() returns a success status code SOCKS_OKAY,
 a call to the accept() method will return when the peer host
 connects to the host/port that was returned by the bind() method.
 Upon success, accept() returns SOCKS_OKAY.

$sock->close();

 Closes the connection.

SEE ALSO

RFC 1928, RFC 1929.

AUTHOR

Clinton Wong, clintdw@netcom.com

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1997-1998 Clinton Wong. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.