SOCKS handling should accept (and ignore) password auth.
Right now, our SOCKS handling code doesn't accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. We could implement this without too much effort.
The rationale for doing this was to handle SOCKS clients that don't know how not to include authentication information.
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