Some vendors are building, for lack of a better term, "stack
overlays" which allow non-SOCKSified applications to
run through SOCKS. Hummingbird has this kind of code
on their Web site for Windows 95 . It works pretty well;
it cleared up some weird problems for us involving
Netscape access to sites both inside and outside a firewall.
If you have OS/2 workstations nothing is currently natively
available (so far as we could find out) to allow use of
non-SOCKSified code. The next release of OS/2 is
supposed to do the same trick for non-SOCKSified
applications as the NEC and Hummingbird code.
I have tried the SocksCap 0.51 code from NEC under
WinOS2. It mostly works, if you are up to level on OS2
and have some patience. As I remember, the big
thing not working with that configuration was WinCIM
(CompuServe access) and I've had some instances
where things just hang. But it's also pretty clearly labeled
as beta code, so ...
There is also another vendor who has these overlays
for Windows, but I can't remember their name offhand.
Disclaimer: I don't work for any vendors explicitly or
implicitly cited.
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