# Install connect with Homebrew, Nix, scoop, winget

Provides SOCKS and HTTPS proxy support to SSH. Version 1.106 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#connect.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:connect
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install connect
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#connect
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/connect/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/connect
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/connect.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Adobe.AdobeConnect -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Adobe.AdobeConnect from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:connect
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.106
- **Source summary:** Provides SOCKS and HTTPS proxy support to SSH
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/gotoh/ssh-connect>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/gotoh/ssh-connect>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- connect (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.106
## Project history and usage

connect, upstreamed as ssh-connect/connect.c, is a small proxy relay intended for OpenSSH ProxyCommand use. It lets SSH cross SOCKS and HTTP CONNECT proxies without embedding those proxy mechanisms in OpenSSH itself.

### Project history

The official README explains the origin plainly: OpenSSH delegated proxying to the ProxyCommand mechanism, and connect.c was made for that purpose. The tool stayed intentionally small, portable, and independent from OpenSSH.

### Adoption history

The package persists because corporate and campus networks still put SSH behind SOCKS or HTTPS proxies. Input metadata lists it for Homebrew, Nix, and Scoop, which fits its cross-platform C design.

### How it is used

Users normally compile or install the single connect binary and reference it from ~/.ssh/config with a ProxyCommand line. The README documents SOCKS4, SOCKS4a, SOCKS5, HTTP CONNECT, proxy credentials, debug mode, and local socket relay behavior.

### Why package nerds care

connect is packaging old-school Unix glue: one C file, one binary, and one exact job. Its significance is that it packages an OpenSSH extension pattern rather than a standalone network service.

### Timeline

- 2000s: README-era revision strings and tags show a long-lived single-purpose C utility.
- 2026: Input package metadata still lists connect in multiple package managers.

### Related projects

- OpenSSH ProxyCommand is the interface connect is designed to serve.
- SOCKS and HTTP CONNECT proxies are the network mechanisms it relays through.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/gotoh/ssh-connect>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.ssh/config
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - connect: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/connect/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/connect: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/connect.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Adobe.AdobeConnect: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Adobe.AdobeConnect from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
- winget - CyberHive.Connect: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: CyberHive.Connect from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/connect.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/connect.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph