====== SOCKS Support ======
**Contact:** [[jan@iptel.org|Jan Janak]]

The goal of this task is to add support for connections initiated or received through the 
SOCKS protocol. SOCKS version 5 supports UDP and and DNS name resolution too. More details
to be added later.

**Use cases**: SIP servers behind firewall, tunneling SIP through SSH, IPv4/IPv6 gateways.

===== Reading List =====
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS|Description of SOCKS protocol on Wikipedia]]
  * [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1928|RFC1928: SOCKS Protocol Version 5]]
  * [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3089|RFC3089: A SOCKS-based IPv6/IPv4 Gateway Mechanism]]