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); }