SOCKS is an Internet protocol that routes packets between a client and a server through a proxy server. SOCKS5, if supported, additionally provides authentication so only authorized users may access a server.
Opens a SOCKS connection to host via the SOCKS server.
The SOCKS server configuration varies by implementation
When using the Dante libsocks/libsocksd implementation it is configured as SOCKS_SERVER env var.
See: manpages.debian.org/testing/dante-client/socksify.1.en.html for full env variable support.
static VALUE
socks_init(VALUE sock, VALUE host, VALUE port)
{
static int init = 0;
if (init == 0) {
SOCKSinit("ruby");
init = 1;
}
return rsock_init_inetsock(sock, host, port, Qnil, Qnil, INET_SOCKS, Qnil, Qnil);
}