Folks-

I'm just beginning my journey at the monastery, although I've been programming in perl for a few years now. Recently, I've decided to try and enhance an existing perl module Re^2: Using SSH via SOCKS5 Proxy, and salva made a good design suggestion Re^3: Using SSH via SOCKS5 Proxy.

I could simply hack the Net::SSH::Perl module to use Net::SOCKS when requested, but salva suggests to make it more general. I take this to mean that a user should be able to specify a given module to use (something like $ssh->proxy(Net::SOCKS, $ip, $port).

Obviously, this means there has to be some way to "plug" the SOCKS module into the SSH module (like tinker-toys). What is the best way to do this?

Am I even on the right track?

Maybe it just makes more sense to do something like:

ssh->proxy( sub{
   require Net::SOCKS;

   my $sock = new Net::SOCKS (...);
   ...
   return($sock);
});
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for setting up the proxy, and then just have SSH send/receive everything through the $sock, once it's setup.

How have others solved this type of problem? My goal is to provide the module author with a viable solution for consideration in making it official. Any direction is much appreciated!

Thanks

-Craig