cygwin socat need proxy protocol support

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Andrew Schulman!

>> Hi cygwin maintainer,
>> 
>> I find you maintain socat package of cygwin.
>> please make it support proxy protocol, eg http/https/socat5/socat5h.
>> It's very useful, thanks ;p

> Hi. Please send feature requests to the Cygwin list, cygwin@cygwin.com. You
> can read the list archive at https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/.

> I just released socat 1.8.1.0-2 as a TEST release, with support for SOCKS4,
> SOCKS4a, and SOCKS5. I don't have a SOCKS server to test those against, so
> please install the test release, and test it with your SOCKS server. For
> example, try

> socat TEXT:'GET / HTTP/1.1\n' SOCKS4:socksserver:cygwin.com:80

> Then post your results to the Cygwin list.

As a quick OT: you can get a simple SOCKS server from running ssh with
`-D 1080` switch (port is an example).


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, January 1, 2026 19:59:47

Sorry for my terrible english...