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<sect2 id="socks">
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<author>&Lauri.Watts;</author>
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<title>SOCKS</title>
<para>SOCKS is a protocol to execute proxy requests for a client. SOCKS
is capable of authentication and encryption of traffic, and is often
found in corporate settings, as opposed to home users. For more
information about SOCKS, see the <ulink
url="http://www.socks.nec.com">NEC</ulink> website</para>
<para>With this module you can enable most of the network aware &kde;
applications to transparently use SOCKS.</para>
<para>Setting up of a SOCKS client is outside the scope of this
document, and the differences between the commonly used ones are very
large. If you already have a working SOCKS implementation, allowing you
to use commandline clients (for example, if <command>lynx</command> or
<command>ftp</command> are already working) then you can simply check
the <guilabel>Enable SOCKS support</guilabel> checkbox.</para>
<para>When this box is checked, several further options become available
to you.</para>
<para>First, you should select which of the various SOCKS clients you
have installed on your computer. &kde; will attempt to find this out by
itself, if you choose <guilabel>Auto detect</guilabel>. If you know the
client you have, you could choose either <guilabel>NEC
Socks</guilabel> or <guilabel>Dante</guilabel>. If you have a
custom built SOCKS library to use, you can select <guilabel>Use custom
library</guilabel> and then enter the path to it in the
<guilabel>Path</guilabel> field.</para>
<para>If you want &kde; to auto detect the SOCKS library in use, but you
suspect it isn't looking in the right places or you have installed it in
a non-standard location, then you can add further paths to be searched in
the bottom of this panel. Use the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> and
<guibutton>Remove</guibutton> to add or remove paths.</para>
<para>At any time while filling in this module, you can press the
<guibutton>Test</guibutton> button, and &kde; will report immediately
with a message box to tell you if it could find and initialize SOCKS or
not.</para>
<para>Changes made here will not affect any applications that are
already open. You will need to close and restart them before they are
able to connect via SOCKS.</para>
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