cygwin socat need proxy protocol support

[Andrew Schulman]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 20:05:20 +0300, Andrey Repin via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

>> 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).

Thanks! Of course, I forgot about that. Andrew