A Node.js module for connecting to a SOCKS5 proxy. This is mainly
a rewrite of socks5-client as that module was not working for me in more
recent versions of NodeJS (in particular node-webkit)
First require the module:
var ProxySocket = require('proxysocket');
Create a ProxySocket object, passing the host and port
that the SOCKS5 proxy is bound to. For example if you were
running tor without any custom settings/ports you would
use port 9050
var socket = new ProxySocket('localhost', 9050);
The returned socket behaves like an ordinary Socket object
and you can call connect() on it:
socket.connect('website.com', 80, function () {
// Connection handler
});
Also note if you're using Tor it's fine to pass .onion hosts:
socket.connect('p4fsi4ockecnea7l.onion', 6667);