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
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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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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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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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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 ...
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A software like Proxifier for linux? [closed]
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?
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 [email protected] -D 9999
Then in Google Chrome, I set the SOCKS proxy to ...
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How to only pass browser traffic to openvpn connection
I have succesfully set up an openvpn connection. By using the parameters
redirect-gateway def1
dhcp-option DNS 10.8.0.1
all traffic will go through the VPN, but I only want a specific application (...
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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 ...
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How to diagnose proxy over ssh?
Recently I've tried to set up proxy using ssh -D 2454 username@servername (to browse the Internet through ssh tunnel), but failed to do this correctly. I would be happy for any suggestions and/or ...
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Multiple identities at the same time using TOR?
I am scraping some websites with curl and I am using Tor to avoid sending too many request with the same ip. The problem is that my app uses threads, so if I send the packet to change identity to the ...
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How can I route *some* traffic over an SSH SOCKS proxy on OS X?
I have a SSH SOCKS connection running for VPN purposes, and this works beautifully. By using either FoxyProxy for Firefox, or a .pac file for OS X's Automatic Proxy Configuration option, web traffic ...
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How to route traffic from one subnet through a specific SOCKS proxy in other subnet?
Here is my network map:
Internet
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Router (192.168.1.1)
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(192.168.1.100) (wireless)
MacBook ( mac os x / windows 7 / ubuntu. It doesn'...
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How to encrypt SOCKS5 traffic?
When I use my laptop in open Wi-Fi networks I want to tunnel all my TCP/IP traffic through a SOCKS5 server running on my VPS.
I'm using Windows 7 and Proxifier in order to tunnel ALL traffic through ...
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How to have external requests from a LAMP server bypass internet censorship?
I had another question at the askUbuntu site, and migrated this version from a Server Fault question, as I think that Super User is the best location for asking it.
Background:
I have a local (...
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How to get an ssh socks proxy on demand?
I know ssh provides a SOCKS proxy with -D. I wonder if it's possible to start such a proxy on demand, the moment a connection is made to a specified port (using the likes of socat and nc under the ...
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SSH tunnel not working (Firefox for Mac --> remote Debian SSHD)
Running Firefox on a Mac. Debian SSHD running on remote computer. Firefox won't connect, not sure why.
I am able to ssh into the remote system on the command line on port 44. Do I need to change ...
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Can I ping/send ICMP through TOR?
Is that possible?
Does Tor use Application Layer SOCKS4/SOCKS5?
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SSH key or user restricted to only making a SOCKS proxy
I like making an SSH tunnel that acts as a SOCKS proxy with a command like:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/some_key -N -D 8000 [email protected]
This allows me to set up local programs like curl to hit ...
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How to use Privoxy in conjunction with SOCKS proxy?
After configuring my browser to use SOCKS5 proxy Privoxy stopped working with the application. How can I fix the proxy chain?
example settings:
SOCKS host: 127.0.0.1
port: 8118
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Forcing all outgoing connections through proxies
How can I do this in Linux? It'd be nice if there was a way to transparently force connections through proxies rather than configure them individually for each program.
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What to do when the ISP seems to interrupt a SOCKS5 connection to a VPS?
I have a VPS and until now have been using a socks5 server on it.
The problem is that recently my ISP (I live in Iran) has figured out some way to interrupt it and I'm receiving the "blocked page" ...
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How to use Apache Directory Studio with a proxy?
I want to connect to an LDAP server running on a server at ldap.subnet.example.com using Apache Directory Studio.
I am running Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0.v20200411-M15 with java-14-openjdk on ...
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Cannot access Wikipedia and Imgur, but can access Google and Youtube
I live in China so I have to use Shadowsocks to access some websites. Everything works well until a few days ago, when I start getting the following error messages when trying to access Wikipedia and ...
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chrome socks proxy through ssh forwarding timeouts
I'm attempting to forward all traffic through from Google Chrome through a SSH tunnel.
When Firefox is configured to use the tunnel, it works. When chrome is launched with the proxy args appended, it ...
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What is the difference between SOCKS4/5 and a pure TCP proxy?
Why do we need SOCKS if we could just use a TCP proxy system like TOR? What kind of advantages does SOCKS have?
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How to route all traffic via a local SSH SOCKS proxy on iOS?
Note: although iOS is technically for "cell phones" which aren't permitted on SU, this questions seems is technical and not about regular usage, that I consider it computer software.
I'd like to have ...
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Configuring IE to resolve DNS at the proxy rather than locally
With the intention of tunneling web traffic through an SSH connection, the following has been done:
I've manually configured a PAC file in IE7 in the LAN Settings dialog.
I've verified that traffic ...
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git: pushing through socks5 proxy with ProxyCommand+ncat fails
socks5 proxy runs as follows
ss-local ... -l 1080 ...
pushing w/ proxychains suceeds
$ proxychains git push
[proxychains] config file found: /etc/proxychains.conf
[proxychains] preloading /usr/lib/...
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Debian Linux: How can I expose a SOCKS proxy as a HTTP proxy for the purpose of HTTP/HTTPS requests?
How can I allow a program, which only supports talking through a HTTP proxy, to talk through a SOCKS proxy? In other words, take the HTTP-proxy request and turn it into a SOCKS-proxy request which ...
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Redirect all local traffic to shadow-socks proxy
Iptables reroute to shadowsocks
I have ubuntu 20.04 vps with shadow-socks server on it.
I also have ubuntu 20.04 on my pc, with shadow-socks client running on it.
Currently using shadow-socks-libev ...
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Turn SOCKS to VPN using OpenVPN
I'm on Windows 10 and I have a local SOCKS connection (Psiphon 3) and I want to share this connection via Wifi Hotspot.
I know how to share an OpenVPN connection via wifi hotspot but I don't know how ...
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Xbox Live over Mac connection sharing using a Socks Proxy
I've recently moved into an apartment with a managed wifi connection. Everything is heavily proxied and most ports besides 443 & 80 are blocked.
I have a personal server running at my parents ...
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Can the browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) authenticate to a SOCKS5 proxy?
If so, what authentication method is possible?
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Can I turn an SSH dynamic port forward to a VPN to use for the whole system?
I can create a socks proxy with ssh dynamic port forwarding and set my web browser to use it, but I want to use that route for the whole system. Is there a way for doing that? Can I turn that socks ...
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SSH tunneling for bypassing firewall (http and socks)
I'm having problems setting up the following:
I am on Linux on machine LOCAL (my notebook).
I ssh into a company machine REMOTE which is behind a firewall and ONLY allows incoming ssh connections (...
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Local computer and remote computer are behind NAT. How to make local network accessible with SOCKS?
I have a
Local computer (behind NAT).
An intermediate server which is publicly accessible and has a
fixed IP address.
Remote computer (behind NAT and not the same as local computer).
I’d like to ...
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How to ping through SOCKS5 proxy?
I have some SOCK5 proxy made through SSH tunnel as 127.0.0.1:8080 (8081, 8082, etc). I want to ping a website through different proxies to find which one provides a faster route.
How can I use the ...
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Opaque SOCKS proxying?
There's this website I'm using which allows access based on your IP address, and my university's servers have access. Problem is, when I browse from one of the servers directly, I'm allowed access, ...
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Proxychains doesn't work as intended in Kali Linux
I am beginner to ethical hacking and trying to route my request using proxychains and tor referring to this YouTube video link. I did everything as shown in video and even after that it doesn't seems ...
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Internet Explorer 11 as a SOCKS5 Proxy Client Resolves Hostnames Locally, not on the Proxy
Internet Explorer 11 as a SOCKS5 proxy client resolves hostnames locally, not on the proxy.
Is there any way to force Internet Explorer 11 to resolve hostnames on the proxy? I would rather not ...
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rTorrent access tracker with proxy?
all tracker domain was blocked in my ISP
I can create proxy with ssh -D and use privoxy to trans socks5 proxy to http proxy, the proxy works well
How I can use proxy it only when rTorrent access ...
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How secure SSH dynamic port forwarding?
I'm using SSH's dynamic port forwarding to host a socks proxy on localhost. I'm trying to find out if the connection between my computer and the remote server/destination is secured. Will my ISP or ...
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