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Questions tagged [socks-proxy]

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http proxy over ssh, not socks

The question is simple, but the answer is not : ssh -D 8080 user@host or ssh -gCNf -D 8080 user@host or wathever with -D # I need a kind of proxy that i can use with http_proxy variable, in an embedded device that doesn't support SOCKS. What…
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SSH as socks proxy through multiple hosts

Can the following be achieved with SSH. There are three machines involved: A. My local machine at home B. The SSH gateway server at school C. A workstation in a lab, only reachable through B I want to setup a SOCKS proxy. I want to be able to surf…
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How to tunnel HTTP over SSH via SOCKS?

This should be a simple issue to solve, but for some reason it's not working for me. ssh vps works just fine (I use authentication keys) I set up the tunnel with the command: ssh -C2TNv -D 8080 vps I then modify Firefox network settings: manual…
wting
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Virtual Network Adapter that forwards request to a SOCKS proxy

Being forced to use a proxy is a nightmare. You have to configure almost every software for the proxy, if the software supports it. It would be great if we could configure our network adapter to use a SOCKS proxy by default. Since it's not an option…
ramazan polat
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A software like Proxifier for linux?

is there any software similar to Proxifier in windows for linux that passes all of my traffic via SOCKSv4, SOCKSv5, HTTPS and etc.?
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How can I make sure all my Mac's TCP traffic goes through a SOCKS5 proxy?

I have a SOCKS proxy with a port. How can I make my MAC use it? What settings do I change under network settings?
Alex
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Way to do DNS lookup through SOCKS5 proxy server

SOCKS5 supports UDP and thus DNS lookups. I'm looking for an application, or a command using standard system utilities, to do a single DNS lookup through a SOCKS5 proxy, and not connect to this address. As an example, here's fake dig command to…
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Redirect web traffic (SOCKS proxy) for a specific domain

I have YouTube blocked at my work because reasons. I’m a scientist and I need YouTube because most of the conferences and talks that I’d like to see are available there. Yes, I actually need YouTube, for science. I spoke to the network admin at my…
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Tunneling ssh via a SOCKS5 Proxy on Windows

I'm using Windows 7 over my 'restricted' campus network. I use Heroku Toolbelt to work with heroku projects, which inturn uses git and ssh on port 22. However, port 22 is blocked in my campus. Can i use a SOCKS proxy like Tor to tunel my ssh and…
Vikas Raturi
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OpenVPN vs. SOCKS proxy

I've been trying to set up a secure connection over which I can browse the internet, and it seems like there are two options, and SSH SOCKS proxy or OpenVPN (at least, those two are what I have found, but I'm certainly no expert.) the SSH SOCKS…
Kyle L
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How to install proxychains for Mac Os

I tried installing homebrew and then installing proxychains with brew install proxychains-ng. It did not work. I then tried downloading the formula from https://gist.github.com/allenhuang/3792521 without success. Do anyone knows how to install…
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Sharing transparently proxied Internet connection with PS3

I am trying to play a Japanese karaoke game on a PS3 but the latency is just horrendous and downloading songs takes forever. One recommendation I got was to turn my laptop into a SOCKS proxy by logging in via OpenSSH to my friend's server in…
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How can I start a google chrome instance which uses a proxy while already having chrome running

On linux, one can use this google-chrome-stable --proxy-server="socks://localhost:4444" to start google chrome and tell it to use a local SOCKS server. However this only works when chrome is not already running, otherwise it politely says Opening…
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Google chrome ignorning localhost for SOCKS5 proxy

I am utilizing Google Chrome as a port forward via SOCKS proxy. Essentially I am running the following command via terminal: ssh foo@bar.com -D 9999 Then in Google Chrome, I set the SOCKS proxy to 127.0.0.1:9999. Problem is, I need to then access…
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Route traffic selectively through OpenVPN as a SOCKS proxy

Is it possible to convert OpenVPN traffic into a SOCKS proxy locally, so that applications can use the VPN only when needed by connecting to the SOCKS proxy? I'm aiming for something like Underleech Seedboxes, but I don't have their opvn file, so…
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