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<node id="178634" title="SOCKS4 Server in Perl" created="2002-07-01 14:21:25" updated="2005-08-11 07:10:10">
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sourcecode</type>
<author id="13922">
strredwolf</author>
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&lt;code&gt;
#!/usr/bin/perl

$|=1; # Run this with Faucet.

#use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use Net::hostent;
use bytes;

my $remote=$ARGV[0];
my $buf, $byte, @head, $up, $user, $err, $kidpid, $sock, $op, $server;
my $destip, $destport, $i;

### Read in first bytes of the Socks header.

read(STDIN,$buf,4);
@head=unpack("CCn",$buf);
read(STDIN,$buf,4);
$ip=inet_ntoa($buf);

$user='';
while(read(STDIN,$buf,1)) {
  last unless(ord $buf);
  $user .= $buf;
}

### Do some insanity checking.
$err=91;  $op=-1; # Assume Not OK...
$destip=pack("N",0); $destport=0;

if($head[0] == 4) { # SOCKS 4
  if($head[1] == 1) { # CONNECT
    $sock=IO::Socket::INET-&gt;new(Proto=&gt;"tcp",
				PeerAddr=&gt;$ip,
				PeerPort=&gt;$head[2]);
    if($sock) {
      $sock-&gt;autoflush(1);
      $err=90;
    }
  } elsif($head[1] == 2) { # BIND
    $destport=$$; $destip=inet_aton($remote);
    $server=IO::Socket::INET-&gt;new(Proto=&gt;'tcp',
				  LocalPort=&gt;$$,
				  LocalAddr=&gt;$remote,
				  Listen=&gt;1,
				  Reuse=&gt;1);
    print pack("CCn",0,90,$destport).$destip;
    if($sock=$server-&gt;accept()) {
      $sock-&gt;autoflush(1);
      if($sock-&gt;peerhost eq $ip) {
	$err=90;
      } else {
	close $sock;
      }
    }
    close $server;
  }
}

print pack("CCn",0,$err,$destport).$destip;
exit if($err&gt;90);

die "can't fork: $!" unless defined($kidpid=fork());
if($kidpid) {
  while(read($sock,$byte,1)){
    print STDOUT $byte;
  }
  kill("TERM", $kidpid);
} else {
  while (read(STDIN,$byte,1)) {
    print $sock $byte;
  }
}
&lt;/code&gt;</field>
<field name="codedescription">
Something I grew frustrated with, so I wrote up my own Socks 4 server.  Supports CONNECT and BIND.  Probably extensible to Socks 5 (have to pull the specs on it).  Quick and dirty hack.&lt;P&gt;

To use, grab netpipes and use

socks4.pl outgoingIPaddr
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<field name="codecategory">
Networking Code</field>
<field name="codeauthor">
[strredwolf]</field>
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