Comparison of proxifiers

A proxifier is a software program which can make other programs pass through a proxy server by intercepting and modifying their socket library calls. This article compares a selection of popular proxifiers.

General

Name

Developer

Status

First release

Based on

License

Source available

| Dante client

Inferno Nettverk A/S

November 16, 1998

BSD

| FreeCap

Max Artemev

2003

GPL

| Proxifier

Initex Software

2004

(Shareware)

| ProxyCap

Proxy Labs

2002

(Shareware)

| proxychains

2002

GPL

| redsocks

Leonid Evdokimov

Apache

| SocksCap

NEC

June 16, 1997

| Super Socks5Cap

Networktunnel Lab

2009

(Shareware)

| torsocks

Robert Hogan

2008

tsocks

GPL

| tun2socks

Ambroz Bizjak

2011

BSD

| WideCap

Max Artemev

(Shareware)

| ProxyAware

IFayFly Studio

2012

(Shareware)

Platforms

The operating systems or virtual machines the proxifiers are designed to run on.

The list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common platforms today.

Name

Mac OS X

Windows

Cygwin

BSD

Linux

Solaris

Windows Mobile

Android

iPhone, iPod Touch

| Dante

| FreeCap

| Proxifier

| ProxyCap

| proxychains

| redsocks

| SocksCap

| Super Socks5cap

| torsocks

| tun2socks

| WideCap

| ProxyAware

Proxy protocols and methods

Name

SOCKS4

SOCKS4A

SOCKS5

HTTP

CONNECT

UDP ASSOCIATE

CONNECT

GET

| Dante

| FreeCap

| Proxifier

| ProxyCap

| proxychains

| redsocks

| SocksCap

| Super Socks5cap

| tun2socks

| WideCap

| ProxyAware

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