Thanks for going into so much detail, you've given me a lot to think about. The real solution is probably the one that nobody wants to take on - having an application HTTP port that could take direct input from HTTP aware stuff and utilize a richer set of information then SOCKS allows for. I've spent a couple evenings looking to see if I could take the code stuff from the dirport and use it for that purpose. I need to spend another couple evenings and and go back and look at the SOCKS4 stuff, I've just recently realized that the state machine for that is closer to an http request/response.Â