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Originally Posted by moortier
Hello!
I am looking for a really good socks checker.
I already found some checkers but they are just not really perfect.
They all get too many false positives.
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Perfection is rarely found in anything in life and it is doubtful you will find it in a proxy checker regardless of whether you are testing for HTTP or Socks proxies. Let me pass on the following quote from Lorissa which might explain your problems in testing socks.
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Originally Posted by Lorissa
...you need to understand that proxy analyzing software is currently designed to only check the socks proxy for connectability (whether it is alive or not). Unfortunately, simply knowing that the socks is operational doesn't mean it will work for you. The authentication protection used by socks servers is not checked and that's a major factor in why they cannot be used in browsers and/or applications. ISPs can also have restrictions, your firewall and/or router (if used) could be setup incorrectly, etc., etc.
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Originally Posted by moortier
I already found aatools which really checks if I can connect to a real server with the socks proxy but I just can figure out how to make it check my proxies that are not on port 1080 because it always shovels them to the http proxies.
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It is assumed you meant to say "can't" instead of "can".
That is very strange. What version of AATools are you using? Is it a cracked version by chance? I ask these questions because AATools will not allow you to check a port 1080 socks as an HTTP proxy unless you load it individually in the HTTP checking page and load only the IP Address with port 1080 pre-selected. Otherwise it automatically considers all port 1080 proxies as Socks and places them in the Socks testing module regardless of whether they are loaded from a text file or pasted in.
A valid current and paid version of AATools will load all other ports in either the Socks or HTTP modules without problems. Perhaps you are just confused?
Either way, Lorissa, who was one of AATools leading beta testers and a moderator at their now basically defunct site should be able to answer this question if anyone can. But, it is rumored that she has resigned from here.