[bheadmaster]

> I have a government client that has locked down all outgoing access for a web server except though a socks proxy.

If you're running Linux, there's a utility called "tsocks" which wraps any other command and redirects all network servers through a SOCKS proxy defined in /etc/tsocks.conf, e.g.:

    tsocks pip install somepackage

One downside is that since it relies on some linker magic, it doesn't work for static binaries. But for most common usage, it served me just fine.

[rtev]

I believe proxychains also would work