A forgotten tool, Delegate a multi protocol, multi application conversion proxy

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DeleGate is a multipurpose proxy server which relays various application protocols on TCP/IP or UDP/IP, including HTTP, FTP, Telnet, NNTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, LPR, LDAP, ICP, DNS, SSL, Socks, and more. DeleGate mediates communication between servers and clients where direct communication is impossible, inefficient, or inconvenient.

DeleGate works as an application level proxy which interprets relayed protocol (control sequence and data structure) between a client and a server; various value added services are realized for recognized protocol. Also DeleGate works as a circuit level proxy which literally conveys transmission between a client and a server of arbitrary protocols on TCP or UDP.

I havn't forgotten the many news about its bugs, though I've never used it. But I knew it then, and could have had some use for it, but declined. Maybe it was mostly user error, because of complexity. Anyways, what's the intent of posting this? Does it even work on contemporary systems?

https://github.com/masahase0117/delegate

Seems bit-rotten..

Was a powerful tool back in the day, was thinking about an issue and remembered this tool, was handy for doing "things".

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