Opera currently does not have support for SOCKS, but it is possible to use a program called SocksCap as a workaround.
SOCKS is used to go securely through a firewall with authentication. Some Winsock implementations let an application use SOCKS transparently. Others may not do so, and requires the application to explicitly use the SOCKS interface.
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