This is a python package that adds socks proxy support to telnetlib using PySocks.
It includes a telnet client that you can use via telnet5 command that uses
SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy set via telnet_proxy environment variable.
Installation:
pip install telnetlib_proxy
Usage:
export telnet_proxy=socks5://host:port
telnet5 [-d] .. host port
# press Ctrl-C to close the connection