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How does SOCKS work exactly?

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The most obvious way to use the SOCKS proxy is when a client behind the firewall wants to create an outgoing connection via the SOCKS proxy when the firewall rules are blocking outgoing connections.

But what about the other way? Can a client create a listening socket in the SOCKS proxy for incoming connections?

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