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How to use Socks5 with fsockopen in PHP

I want to be able to connect to a remote host (e.g FTP, SMTP, POP) through Socks5 using fsockopen in PHP.

Please how do I go about it?

Solution

  • fsockopen just opens a socket connection. You should manually create request packets and parse responses to implement Socks5 since there is no built-in support in PHP. See here to know how Socks5 works.

    Alternatively you can use something like this SOCKS 5 class.