Comparison of proxifiers
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A proxifier is a software program which can make other programs pass through a proxy server by intercepting and modifying their network requests. This article compares a selection of popular proxifiers.
General[edit]
Name | Developer | Status | First release | Based on | License | Source available |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dante client | Inferno Nettverk A/S | Active | November 16, 1998 [1] | BSD | Yes | |
FreeCap | Max Artemev | N/A | 2003 | GPL | Yes | |
Proxifier | Initex Software | Active | 2004 | Proprietary (Shareware) | No | |
ProxyCap | Proxy Labs | Active | 2002 | Proprietary (Shareware) | No | |
proxychains | Active | 2002 | GPL | Yes | ||
redsocks | Leonid Evdokimov | Active | Apache | Yes | ||
SocksCap | NEC | N/A | June 16, 1997[2] | Proprietary | No | |
Super Socks5Cap | Networktunnel Lab | Active | 2009 | Proprietary (Shareware) | No | |
torsocks | Robert Hogan | Active | 2008 | tsocks | GPL | Yes |
tun2socks | Ambroz Bizjak | Active | 2011 | BSD | Yes | |
WideCap | Max Artemev | N/A | Proprietary (Shareware) | No |
Platforms[edit]
The operating systems or virtual machines the proxifiers are designed to run on.
The list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common platforms today.
Name | Mac OS X | Windows | Cygwin | BSD | Linux | Solaris | Windows Mobile | Android | iPhone, iPod Touch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dante | N/A | No | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
FreeCap | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Proxifier | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
ProxyCap | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
proxychains | N/A | No | N/A | N/A | Yes | N/A | No | No | No |
redsocks | N/A | No | N/A | N/A | Yes | N/A | No | Yes[3] | No |
SocksCap | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Super Socks5cap | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
torsocks | Yes | No | N/A | N/A | Yes | N/A | No | No | No |
tun2socks | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes[note 1] | No |
WideCap | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Proxy protocols and methods[edit]
Name | SOCKS4 | SOCKS4A | SOCKS5 | HTTP | SSH1 | SSH2 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CONNECT | UDP ASSOCIATE | CONNECT | GET | |||||
Dante | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
FreeCap | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Proxifier | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes[note 1] | No | No |
ProxyCap | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[note 1] | Yes | Yes |
proxychains | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
redsocks | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | No | No |
SocksCap | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | No | No | No | No |
Super Socks5cap | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes[note 2] | Yes[note 2] |
tun2socks | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
WideCap | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
References[edit]
- ^ "Dante Presentation". Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ "SocksCap Version History". Retrieved 2011-09-15.
- ^ http://code.google.com/p/proxydroid/
- ^ https://s3.amazonaws.com/0ubz-2q11-gi9y/en.html#open_source
- ^ https://bitbucket.org/psiphon/psiphon-circumvention-system/commits/b6eba8e035200efdc4fb77ebf67dc49056e04d4c
- ^ https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-android/blob/master/src/main/jni/Android.mk[dead link]