Questions tagged [http-proxy]
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Are HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY environment variables standard?
It seems that a lot of programs are designed to read these environment variables to decide what proxy to go through in order to connect to a resource on the internet. Those programs may also have ...
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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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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 ...
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How to use special characters in username/password for HTTP proxy?
I am trying to setup an HTTP proxy on a Windows machine. Problem is, the password has a special character (@) in it that is causing the set command to fail.
I have tried both escaping the character (\...
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MinGW installer not working with proxy
Situation
I want to install minGW and msys on a work pc, but I'm behind a proxy. The proxy settings are configured to auto detect in both internet explorer and firefox. The proxy is a http proxy on ...
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Cannot start CNTLM
When I try to start CNTLM, it fails. If I check in my Windows Event Log I see the message:
starting service 'cntlm' failed: fork 11, Resource temporarily unavailable
It worked before I updated to ...
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Windows7 command: set http_proxy and bypass
I am sitting behind a company proxy. To start vagrant i had to use
set HTTP_proxy=http://http-proxy.example.org:9999
i tryed using netsh winhttp but that didn't work. So now my command line uses the ...
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HTTPS_PROXY vs https_proxy
as I know, Linux is case-sensitive.
and I usually export the http proxy like the below:
export http_proxy= proxy:port
export https_proxy= proxy:port
so I think that if I wrote like the below, it ...
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What is the difference between "CONNECT" and "GET HTTPS"?
Before getting to the real question, let me explain how my project works: for sake of simplicity, my proxy is on my laptop, where the client (my browser) also is; the remote server will be, for ...
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Authenticated proxy for Windows 8
I'm behind an authenticated proxy, and I'm planning on installing Windows 8. I know that one can set the proxy settings for the apps via netsh winhttp.
I remember that one cannot set authentication ...
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Ping with proxy authentication in windows
I am trying to ping google.com from my computer. I use a Internet connection which works on a proxy and requires proxy authentication.
I have been using linux till now and there we can easily modify ...
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How to get Thunderbird to work through HTTP proxy server?
I would like to access my personal IMAP server through my corporate firewall. This is allowed provided I use the corporate proxy server, which is an HTTP proxy server. I cannot figure out how to ...
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set proxy for windows subsystem for android apps
I have installed Windows subsystem for android in windows 11 and installed some android apps.
I want to know how to set proxy server for android apps running by WSA?
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Map Local (like Charles Proxy) using Open Source
Is there a way to use Wireshark or some other freeware to get an outcome like one gets when using Charles' Map Local capability?
The way it works in Charles is that you can specify a set of files/...
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How to encrypt connection to a squid proxy server
I've set up an anonymous squid proxy server, and it works completely fine, but I haven't found anything about how to encrypt the traffic between me and the server itself. Where to start?
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Where does the Squid proxy stores its cache files?
Imagine that I have hosted a web server. And to speed up things I have used an http caching proxy called Squid. Where actually squid stores its cache files and how long will it remain there? I am on a ...
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VPN/Tunneling (SSH or otherwise) on Windows via HTTP proxy
Situation.
... +-- Computers
(to the internet) | |
- [ router / firewall ] -- [ switch ] +- [ switch ] -+-- Computers
...
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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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HTTPS (letsencrypt) squid proxy on a domain?
I'd like to make a HTTPS squid proxy (this kind) that can be used by anyone to access any site. This is not a reverse proxy, it is for the whole internet. For security reasons, IPs on my subnet should ...
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Windows, not admin: Proxy working in Firefox but not in cmd, why?
I've manually configured the proxy in Firefox, and it works. I tried to use it also in the command line, but it fails:
>set http_proxy=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT
>set https_proxy=https:/...
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Can I tunnel other protocol through an HTTP proxy?
I would like to know how HTTP tunnels work. I tried Google but didn't find what I was looking for.
As far as I know HTTP proxies are like reverse proxys. You request a website, HTTP proxy gets and ...
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SSH tunnel over HTTP(S) proxy (Reverse RDP)
I've been trying to accomplish this scenario:
HOST_WORK is behind non-transparent squid_proxy (its not, but to get outside you need to use it, all other packets are black-holed on gateway not to ...
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Internet Explorer's proxy settings not getting saved
When I connect to my workplace LAN I have to use a company proxy. This proxy is set as usual in IE's LAN settings.
The picture below (taken from Google Images as my Windows is not English-localized) ...
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How to enable Apache as proxy to Docker container?
I need to set up Apache as the web server and have it proxy http requests to a Docker container with its own web server. I'm starting with the Docker image httpd:2.4. What modules do I need to ...
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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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Configuring firefox to use a chain proxy
I live in college and I access internet through a local http proxy. I want to access internet through external http/SOCKS5 proxies which are freely available. How to configure Firefox to do that?
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How to I capture HTTP header traffic in my home network
I'm trying to experiment with some HTTP data for a personal project. What I would like to do is capture all the HTTP traffic that passes through my Wifi Router at home and use that data for some ...
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SSH as socks proxy through multiple hosts (with http proxy involved)
There are three machines involved.
Home PC
Gateway Server
Squid Proxy Server on a workstation.
I want to surf internet using the Squid proxy server on my Home PC
I don't have a direct access to the ...
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Bypass website that falls under wildcard proxy exception
I need a way to exclude a specific web address from the Win 10 list of proxy exceptions.
For example, if I am using a proxy, but I don't want the proxy used for a specific domain (google.com) I can ...
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Service to transparently use an HTTP CONNECT proxy on Linux
As our corporate network provides an HTTP CONNECT proxy for people who need to connect to the outside world, and as every Linux application needs to be set up specially to use it, I was thinking about ...
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How to use authentication in an HTTP Proxy?
I am currently researching FreeProxy 4.10.
I just noticed that one of its functions, "authentication."
How does authentication work?
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Use SSH to Create an HTTP Proxy without browser
I am trying to reach an HTTP(S) website from my device's browser. My Device can get to that website only through a double SSH tunnel.
Using this technique, I'm able to set up my Firefox browser to ...
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Who and where X-Forwarded-For header in user's request is added?
X-Forwarded-For is a HTTP header which is used to identify the IP Address of originating user. I was wondering "where" this header is added in the request and "who" actually adds it? Is it your ...
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How is an HTTP proxy different from a NAT box?
A host in a LAN with IP (10.0.0.1 TCP port 8888) connects to a server without knowing there is a NAT box at the network edge. The NAT box is dumb and just translates port 8888 to some other port 5555 ...
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how to force web browser sends HTTP CONNECT request
when we use HTTP proxy, we can use it to visit websites with https.
In ordinary http proxying, the browser sends HTTP GET in cleartext. HTTP proxy parse the HTTP GET request HOST line to know which ...
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Use a proxys for all windows requests
How do I configure a proxy for all the HTTP requests that is send from my windows PC? Could you please guide me?
I have a Charles Proxy which is available on a system and I need all HTTP requests ...
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Dynamic proxy using HTTP CONNECT
My university provides internet access through an HTTP proxy which blocks POP, SMTP, and IMAP. To circumvent this, the IT department's "Internet setup guide" suggests to use socat:
socat TCP-L:6660,...
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Authenticating proxy like CNTLM but without the NTLM
On one of the corporate networks I log into, I use CNTLM to centralise my proxy settings. It's great, because when I have to change my password every so often, I only need to change it in one spot, ...
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proxies not working on Macbook
I have both http and socks5 proxies but after I set them up and authenticate, they don't work.
With the http proxy I do have internet access but nothing changes - still my old IP, not the one of the ...
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Virtualbox Host-only Adapter blocks Chrome's and Slack's internet access
I have Google Chrome version 64 (most current at the time of this writing) running on win 10 with all updates. I also have VirtualBox 5.2.6 r120293 (most current at the time of this writing), with a ...
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How to modify HTTP Responses on android?
I have an Android Device which is capable of running both Linux And Android Side by side, I need to keep checking the packets being sent by the device to a particular domain, And when the domain meets ...
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setting https_proxy environment variable in a secure way
The following is the standard way suggested to set the environment variable for the https_proxy:
export https_proxy=<username>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>
But it clearly shows/...
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Web proxy to rewrite outbound URLs?
I use Privoxy on my Windows host to filter incoming web pages, but I now need to perform a URL rewrite on outgoing queries as well.
I asked in the mailing list but no reply so far, so I wanted to ...
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Implementing a global proxy with iptables
I'm running a Linux box (Lubuntu 12.04) in an Windows environment where a pac file is used to configure internet access.
proxy.pac file:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host){
var proxy_yes = "PROXY ...
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How to Unset the proxy from Windows command prompt permanently?
I have set the proxy in my Windsows 7 cmd using the below commands
C:\> setx HTTP_PROXY http://username:[email protected]:1234
C:\> set HTTPS_PROXY=http://username:password@proxy....
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How to proxy and redirect incoming http requests
My server has public host name my_machine.my_company.org:8080. I would like to redirect all incoming http requests to localhost:8080.
How can I do it? I use ubuntu 15.10.
Why I am doing this? ...
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Change the HTTP request before sending
I want to change an HTTP request before sending the data.
I tried WebScarab for the purpose, but it looks like it doesn't work with Facebook properly. (And I dealing with Facebook (https if possible, ...
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How do I permanently disable manual proxy in windows 10?
I am trying to disable proxy in windows 10. When I disable the manual proxy it just enable itself when I go back to check. How do I permanently disable this? And I am getting a 127.0.0.1:6061 on the ...
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How to check a website if it can act as HTTP proxy server or not?
So, I need HTTP proxy server for HTTP Connect tunneling.
How to check a website if it can act as a HTTP proxy server or not ? Do websites have to implement proxy server functionality themselves so ...
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SOCKS proxy and HTTP: Will the IP address be hidden?
As far as I know, using a HTTP proxy, there will be a header field sent that contains the IP address of the user.
But SOCKS almost works with every service and protocol, so there should not be such a ...