# SOCKS

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 NEC website

With this module you can enable most of the network aware &kde; applications to transparently use SOCKS.

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 `lynx` or `ftp` are already working) then you can simply check the Enable SOCKS support checkbox.

When this box is checked, several further options become available to you.

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 Auto detect. If you know the client you have, you could choose either NEC Socks or Dante. If you have a custom built SOCKS library to use, you can select Use custom library and then enter the path to it in the Path field.

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 Add and Remove to add or remove paths.

At any time while filling in this module, you can press the Test button, and &kde; will report immediately with a message box to tell you if it could find and initialize SOCKS or not.

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.