Feature request: SOCKS5 plaintext proxy in Go

[qdm12]

1. What's the feature?

SOCKS5 plaintext proxy in Go

2. Why do you need this feature?

When you don't want to use a Shadowsocks client and don't care about encryption (i.e. in your LAN) or because your browser is limited to SOCKS5 and doesn't have a Shadowsocks extension. Also for low power devices where encryption can have a performance penalty.

3. Extra information?

This should be added in Go and should be relatively straight forward to implement.

[alpe12]

Ouch, 2020.
Please.
Maybe add Dante support instead?

[qdm12]

@alpe12 you can plug in any socks server container for now (dante or other server implementing the socks protocol).

Right now a SOCKS5 proxy built-in is not a priority since there is already an http proxy and a shadowsocks server (encrypted socks5)

[alpe12]

To anyone who might be interested. This is what I'm using now to get socks5:

version: "3"
services:
  gluetun:
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun
    container_name: gluetun
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    ports:
      - 8888:8888/tcp # HTTP proxy
      - 1080:1080 #socks5 proxy
    volumes:
      - ./config:/gluetun
    environment:
      - VPNSP=nordvpn
      - VPN_TYPE=openvpn
      - OPENVPN_USER=>USER<
      - OPENVPN_PASSWORD=>PASSWORD<
      - REGION=Brazil
      - OPENVPN_PROTOCOL=udp
      - OPENVPN_FLAGS=--auth-nocache
      - TZ=America/Sao_Paulo
      - HTTPPROXY=on
  socks5:
    image: serjs/go-socks5-proxy
    depends_on:
      - gluetun
    network_mode: "service:gluetun"

[x0st]

If anybody still needs this, I forked gluetun and added support for socks5.

https://github.com/x0st/gluetun

docker run -it --rm --cap-add=NET_ADMIN -e VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=... -e OPENVPN_USER=... -e OPENVPN_PASSWORD=... -e SOCKS5=on -e SOCKS5_PASSWORD=123 -p 1080:1080 gluetun

You can pass any username, only password will be checked.

curl -X GET https://github.com -x socks5://user:123@127.0.0.1:1080

[irishj]

What's the image name for this new image with socks5 support ?

I'm using docker compose and the image "qmcgaw/gluetun". I tried with "x0st/gluetun" and docker returns an error.

[CEbbinghaus]

@x0st Well done, Those changes look pretty good. Have you considered opening a PR to merge those changes back to Gluetun?