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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-06-29 18:08:37 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-06-29 18:08:37 -0400
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Update socks-extensions to allow username/password auth
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@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ Tor's extensions to the SOCKS protocol
SOCKS5:
- The (SOCKS5) "UDP ASSOCIATE" command is not supported.
- IPv6 is not supported in CONNECT commands.
- - Only the "NO AUTHENTICATION" (SOCKS5) authentication method [00] is
- supported.
+ - The "NO AUTHENTICATION" (SOCKS5) authentication method [00] is supported.
+ As of Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha, the "USERNAME/PASSWORD" (SOCKS5) authentication
+ method [02] is supported too. As an extension to support some broken
+ clients, we allow clients to pass "USERNAME/PASSWORD" authentication to
+ us even if no authentication was selected.
2. Name lookup