Questions tagged [proxy]
A proxy server is a software or a dedicated computer that acts as an intermediary for client requests. Most proxies are used as web proxies in order to filter or cache browsed web content. Using a proxy in order to maintain anonymity or bypass security restrictions is also common.
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How do I know what proxy server I'm using?
I need to know what the address for my proxy server is so I can configure another program to also use it. If I go into IE, Internet Properties, LAN Settings, then all I see is an automatic ...
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How can I tunnel all of my network traffic through SSH?
Whenever I'm using the internet from an insecure location (such as public wifi) I like to use an ssh tunnel (ssh -D port host) to ensure my traffic can't be sniffed. Unfortunately, there seem to be ...
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Why does Qatar use a single IP address when 800,000 IP addresses are allocated to it?
In discussions about IP address banning, IP 82.148.97.69 is often cited as an example. According to Wikipedia, this IP address is the public address of "the entire nation of Qatar". There are two ...
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What are the benefits of using a proxy? [closed]
I know students and employees use them to get by web filters. But what else? I hear about "privacy and security" but I can never find anything really explaining it.
I did see one link that said it ...
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How to view Internet Explorer auto-detected proxy settings?
When Internet Explorer is set to auto-detect proxy settings, is there a way to view what it detects?
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How can I use SSH with a SOCKS 5 proxy?
I have a SOCKS5 proxy set up through PuTTY with port 7777 configured as a dynamic port. I can use firefox/filezilla/etc by configuring them to use a SOCKS proxy with localhost and port 7777. But I ...
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How to use ntpdate behind a proxy?
Is it possible to use ntpdate behind an HTTP proxy with authentication? In case it is not possible, are there any good alternatives?
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Convert HTTP requests to SOCKS5
I'm currently doing some testing work with TOR and ran in to a small problem. Tor's client only supports receiving connections through a SOCKS5 protocol, but the applications I'm using only support ...
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Global proxy settings for all Windows applications in Windows Vista
How do I make Windows (Vista) to apply certain proxy server for all applications that use internet?
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How to ping when behind a proxy?
I am using an HTTP proxy server to connect to the internet.
Because of that my pings are not working
ping www.google.com
says Unreachable Host
How can I configure ping to use the HTTP proxy?
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How to make a port forward in Mac OS X
I'd like to make all incoming connections to port 1000 of my host (IP: 200.234.XXX.XXX) to be forward to the port 80 on host 10.211.55.5
How can I do it on my host? It is running Mac OS X 10.5.8
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http proxy over ssh, not socks
The question is simple, but the answer is not :
ssh -D 8080 user@host
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ssh -gCNf -D 8080 user@host
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wathever with -D #
I need a kind of proxy that i can use with http_proxy variable, in ...
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How to check if a Socks5 proxy works
Is there an easy way, preferably by using the Linux terminal, to check if a Socks5 proxy works?
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In Windows 7, how to change proxy settings from command line?
How do I change proxy settings from command line in Windows 7?
I'm not talking about just the http_proxy. I need to set system-wide proxy settings (the ones in Internet properties setting). How ...
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How can I make my IP address appear to be from another country?
How do I make it appear that my IP address is coming from one country while I'm located in another?
I live in Germany and some websites (like Hulu or Youtube) don't work because my IP isn't in the US. ...
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Configure VirtualBox to connect to Internet through proxy
I'm currently trying to run Chrome OS in VirtualBox 3.0.1. Windows XP Pro is the host system.
The actual behavior is Chrome OS starts up fine, reaches the login screen.
Once so, when trying to log ...
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Linux command line to turn off proxy
Can you show me the command line to turn off proxy when I am using the command line terminal in Ubuntu?
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How to change proxy setting using Command line in Mac OS?
I am using Mac OS and sometimes some work need to be done using a proxy so I need to change my proxy setting frequently. But changing proxy setting in System Preferences is very messy.
Is there a ...
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How to do DNS through a proxy in Firefox?
I am using Firefox 3.5.7 with FoxyProxy. I have an ssh tunnel forwarding 8080 through to an HTTP proxy server on the other end. With FoxyProxy, I send work traffic direct but everything else goes ...
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How to bypass web URL filtering service to access blocked websites (proxy) [closed]
I'm using network, where services such as Gmail or any other e-mails, Google Drive, Dropbox, all social networks are blocked.
Basically my goal is to access simply GMail, but I couldn't find any way ...
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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 ...
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Nginx as forward proxy for HTTPS
While I was able to successfully configure nginx to proxy HTTP traffic (using this guide), all attempts to proxy HTTPS requests resulted in code 400 (Bad Request).
Nginx debug logs weren't helpful at ...
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How to install NPM behind authentication proxy on Windows?
I need to run the latest version of Node and NPM on Windows. I installed Node 0.5.8 and downloaded the sources of NPM from GitHub. The steps I followed to install NPM were listed on its GitHub site ...
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How can I run ALL HTTP requests through Charles Web Debugging Proxy - including command line ones?
I'm using the Charles Web Debugging Proxy software to debug HTTP requests. It works great with my desktop browsers, Chrome and Firefox, and it even sees HTTP requests that other programs make.
When I ...
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Can I make Windows 7 change my proxy settings based on my network connection?
Moving my LapTop between work and home I need to change my internet proxy settings. Is there any build in way for windows 7 to change these settings based on my currently active network?
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Disable/enable the proxy on a tab by tab basis in Firefox
Is it possible to disable/enable the proxy connection on a tab-by-tab basis in Firefox?
I can access the internet with the proxy enabled, and I can access our internal servers with the proxy disabled,...
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Freeware local proxy engine for Windows? [closed]
Is there a nice and small, freeware proxy application that runs in the system tray?
It should support HTTP and HTTPS proxy connections, NTLM authentication and configurable rules (different proxy ...
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Force programs to use & go through proxy [closed]
My school requires a proxy for all internet access. If you want to use the internet, it is impossible to not use a proxy. This makes it a problem for many programs that don't seem to let you enter ...
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How to make Notepad++ use proxy with username and password?
This has been a frustration for a while - I am trying to figure out how to configure Notepad++ (now at v5.6.8 Unicode) to use a proxy server with a specific username and password when connecting to ...
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Chrome ssh tunnel forwarding
I am first logging into an ssh server. Then I am trying to use Chrome for ssh tunnel forwarding. Is there a gui way of doing this? I can do this in Firefox's gui in like 10 seconds so I would think ...
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Windows 10 - Set up an OS-level proxy with authentication
To connect with a certain server, I need to have always the same IP. For that purpose I created a private proxy and added authentication so that hackers wouldn't use it for malicious purposes.
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nginx http to https proxy with self-signed certificate
I have an nginx proxy to redirect http requests with a specified port to another https url.
Here is my configuration so far:
server {
listen 59848;
location / {
resolver 8.8.8.8;
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How to connect wsl to a windows localhost?
I'm trying to let WSL use a localhost proxy(actually its Fiddler) on my windows, but I can't see any connection like that, and downloads usually fail, how do I fix that?
I know that I can connect to ...
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How can I configure proxy settings for all apps, system, IE etc?
I am using Windows 8 Enterprise (MSDN), behind a proxy.
I configured the proxy in IE network settings (actually, not a proxy, but a .pac file with config), and when trying to connect to the internet, ...
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How to setup proxy jump with PuTTY
In GNU/Linux I find it very easy to perform the following, but I am struggling to get our Windows users to connect via the same method.
The following is what I do on GNU/Linux. Can you please ...
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How to disable internet access at night on the router?
I have an internet connection that I'd like to be enabled only during the day. With multiple household internet devices, this would need to be something disabled at the level of the router.
I don't ...
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What is the difference between a proxy and a VPN?
There are several service providers out there that allow a user to circumvent firewalls or anonymize their web access.
Some of them use proxies, some use VPNs. Most people say that VPNs usually work ...
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Chrome: Do not use system-wide proxy settings
Is it possible to configure the proxy for chrome separately, i.e. without using the global windows proxy configuration?
I remember there were some discussions about adding a commandline switch for it ...
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How to create a SOCKS proxy with ssh?
I want to use my computer as a SOCKS proxy. Do you just have to do ssh -D port_number hostname? Do I have to put my Linux username as the hostname?
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How do I change the Windows7 LAN proxy config from the command line?
In Windows 7, Is it possible to define/change the proxy config from the command line?
So, using the GUI, I would go:
Start → Control Panel → Network and Internet → Internet Options → Connections → ...
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How to turn off WinHttp proxy?
Not too long ago I turned on a proxy for WinHttp traffic like this (from this article):
netsh winhttp set proxy 127.0.0.1:8888
How can I turn the proxy off now? I can't seem to get the syntax right....
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Can VMWare be configured to use a proxy?
I'm evaluating some software solutions, so a simple "yes" or "no" would be nice. I'm having some issues getting a simple answer with my own searches...
The configuration would work like this: I ...
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How can I let all my docker containers use my proxy?
I am running docker on Debian Jessie which is behind a corporate proxy. To be able to download docker images, I need to add the following to my /etc/defaults/docker
http_proxy="http://localhost:3128/"...
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Mac OS X Force Internet Sharing Traffic Through Proxy
I have Internet Sharing set up on my Mac OS 10.9.5 machine, sharing my Ethernet connection to any devices connected to the created Wi-Fi hotspot. I'm looking for a way to force all that traffic ...
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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
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How to avoid google chrome proxy bypass for localhost?
On Linux I'm starting chrome as google-chrome --proxy-server=127.0.0.1:8888 --proxy-bypass-list="" however it's still not using the proxy for localhost requests.
How can I force chrome to use my ...
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How to specify that Yum should not use proxy for specific domain
Is it possible to specify domain for which yum should bypass proxy configuration ?
I'm afraid this is not possible...
I read that it was possible to use the environment variable HTTP_PROXY then ...
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Using a proxy for certain sites only
When I work from home, I want to read some sites that my work blocks.
Since I'm connected via VPN, their servers route my requests and sites like reddit are blocked.
Currently, I just RDP into ...
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How do I use the Google data compression proxy on Firefox?
I am using GNU Icecat (GNU version of Mozilla Firefox) on Trisquel GNU/Linux. In order to minimize/optimize data usage while web surfing, I want to use Google's data compression proxy.
So, how do I ...
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easy_install will not connect through proxy
I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.04 64-bit under VirtualBox, and it seems that everything except easy_install and pip can connect to the Internet. I have set and exported the http_proxy environment ...
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