This is an extremely fast, clean and easy-to-use SOCKS5 proxy server written in Go.

It is assumed that you have set GOPATH in your environment and added $GOPATH/bin to your PATH. Then you can use the following command to automatically download, compile and install this software:

go get github.com/physacco/socks5

If all goes well, there will be a newly compiled executable file named socks5 (or socks5.exe on Windows platform) in your $GOPATH/bin directory.

Start a SOCKS5 server:

socks5 [host]:port

To stop the server:

• just press Ctrl-C, or
• kill the process with this command: pkill -f socks5

1. Listen on *:1080:

   socks5 :1080

2. Listen on localhost:1080:

   socks5 localhost:1080

3. Check if the server is working well:

   curl --socks5-hostname localhost:1080 http://www.google.com/