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2014-07-15		2014-07-28
5.6 Bug 1147 Command to auto-detect proxy for session settings. (martin)		5.6 bug 160 webdav (martin)
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	Selecting //SOCKS4// or //SOCKS5// allows you to proxy your connections through a SOCKS server.		Selecting //SOCKS4// or //SOCKS5// allows you to proxy your connections through a SOCKS server.

-	Many firewalls implement a less formal type of proxy in which a user can make a Telnet connection directly to the firewall machine and enter a command such as ''connect myhost.com 22'' to connect through to an external host. Selecting //Telnet// allows you to tell WinSCP to use this type of proxy. This type of proxy is not supported for [[ftp\|FTP protocol]].	+	Many firewalls implement a less formal type of proxy in which a user can make a Telnet connection directly to the firewall machine and enter a command such as ''connect myhost.com 22'' to connect through to an external host. Selecting //Telnet// allows you to tell WinSCP to use this type of proxy. This type of proxy is not supported for [[FTP]] and [[WebDAV]] protocols.

-	Selecting //Local// allows you to specify an arbitrary command on the local machine to act as a proxy. When the session is started, instead of creating a TCP connection, WinSCP runs the specified command, and uses its standard input and output streams. This type of proxy is not supported for FTP protocol.	+	Selecting //Local// allows you to specify an arbitrary command on the local machine to act as a proxy. When the session is started, instead of creating a TCP connection, WinSCP runs the specified command, and uses its standard input and output streams. This type of proxy is not supported for [[FTP]] and [[WebDAV]] protocols.

	This could be used, for instance, to talk to some kind of network proxy that WinSCP does not natively support; or you could tunnel a connection over something other than TCP/IP entirely.		This could be used, for instance, to talk to some kind of network proxy that WinSCP does not natively support; or you could tunnel a connection over something other than TCP/IP entirely.