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Comment by chazeon | Hacker News Reader

Several multi-protocol proxy clients support this functionality, some notable open-source examples include:

  - [sing-box](https://github.com/SagerNet/sing-box)
  - [clash-meta](https://github.com/muink/Clash.Meta) and other clash-based clients
  - [xray](https://github.com/xtls/xray-core)

Close-sourced client include [Surge Mac/iOS](https://nssurge.com/).

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Was about to say this. Those multiprotocol proxies (presumably build to climb the Great Firewall) are an interesting microcosm. Tons of possibilities for obscure traffic routing. Also have android implementations. Used them just to open up a hotspot on a non hotspot SIM and non-rooted android a time ago. I am always wondering how trustworthy they are because they are packing tons of code taken from all over the net and have a quite interesting developer community for obvious reasons.

In the closed-source world, cloudflare's warp can also work in proxy mode. Even the free accounts can work this way after converting the warp config to plain wireguard.

For people that care, clash + v2ray seems to be the only thing that reliably works in China. While most big VPN providers claim that they work, they don’t. I haven’t spent a lot of time figuring out how it works, but I do like the concept of rule groups to decide which domains the vpn should proxy.

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