A netty based socks5 proxy server with support for proxy auto-config (wpad) based backend redirection.

• listen with socks5 protocol
• configure browser OR cli tools like curl to use the socks5 proxy Eg: curl -x socks5h://localhost:1080 https://www.oracle.com/java/
• can access the target directly OR via a normal HTTP proxy

Run "mvn clean package" and look for padded-socks-1.0.jar in the target folder.

For JDK8 and lower use run8.[sh|bat] and for higher jdk versions look at run.[sh|bat]

Review app.properties for configuration information before starting.

• The wpad file can return the following types: DIRECT, PROXY, SOCKS, HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, SOCKS5 Currently we ONLY support DIRECT and PROXY. Others can be added.
• The wpad file can return MULTIPLE proxy servers to use in a failover scenarion. Currently we ONLY look at the first one.
  PROXY w3proxy.example.com:8080; PROXY proxy1.example.com:8080 Failover can be added.

• https://blog.gwlab.page/vpn-over-ssh-the-socks-proxy-8a8d7bdc7028