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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]] and [[WebDAV]] protocols.+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]], [[WebDAV]] and [[S3]] 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]] 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]], [[WebDAV]] and [[S3]] 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.

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