Socks2http is a program that implements HTTP Tunneling.
HTTP Tunneling is a method of bypassing firewall or proxy restrictions. It works by creating a "tunnel", or a communications channel that makes the firewall think that it is getting traffic from a web browser. Communications content is delivered through this tunnel to the website gateway or your own personal gateway.
The gateway extracts your content from the tunnel and sends it to the destination. When your counter party responds everything goes back the same way.
You may need tunneling because your company, college, university, ISP blocked certain programs, such as KaZaA, ICQ, Morpheus, WinMX, AOL IM, MSN IM, Trillian, FTP, telnet, ssh.
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