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How typical proxy works on network level?

When I use a proxy for web browsing for example, if I use firefox for common web browsing, on network level after you input a URL and click 'return', the process is: DNS query for the URL establish ...
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How to build a password protected, web-based, proxy server?

Yesterday, I took advantage of a deal offered by a web hosting company, FatCow, to buy a year's worth of "unlimited" hosting for $1. So now I want to take advantage of that by deploying a password ...
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How to prefer mobile connection over proxy?

I have win7. I have proxy connection and also mobile connection via my Android phone(via USB port). I want to connect to internet only via mobile connection so I specified no Proxy in my browser ...
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I'm looking for a text-based web browser with support for user scripts

So far I've acknowledge lynx, links and elinks, but none supports userscripts. Is there any other that supports userscripts? What I want to do is apply a script that would format certain pages to be ...
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How to setup proxy settings in firefox?

I've installed firefox as user not admin and its installed at the location /user/user-name/appdata/local. Hence its not able to import the proxy setting from my IE and not able to connect to the ...
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how to use custom ip address to browse a web page c#/.net [closed]

i am trying to browse web page using custom(user provided) ip address but it's not working. webBrowser1 loads web page successfully but it's not using custom ip address, it loads page with real ip ...
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How to redirect outbound connections to an different IP?

I have to access some external (internet) IP Address. I know for a fact that there is an internal (LAN) IP Address for the same service. I want to use the internal address everytime a program in my ...
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Squid (or any other proxy) auto login without credential challenge

Present Situation: Configure Firefox to use a proxy server either by direct proxy details or PAC file. When a site is accessed, you get a Login dialog (from FF) for the proxy. We provide ...
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Hacker News mysteriously blocked on my Mac OS X Lion

When I try to access http://news.ycombinator.com on my computer, I get 502 proxy error: Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not ...
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Browsers that support Socks5 user/password authentication

I need a browser that can authenticate itself with the usual user/password combination. Arora and Maxthon does this. However, Arora's source code have been edited 2 years ago. Maxthon? It's an ...
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How to configure proxy settings on Linux XFCE?

I have been running into problems whilst configuring my XFCE proxy settings. Whilst declaring the proxy variables in /etc/environment seems to work for wget, curl and chrome, it has no effect on apt ...
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How do I tell browser, “Don't load any external scripts from example.com”

I'm using the Firefox add-on FoxyProxy to route all external scripts from example.com to staging.example.com. But now I'd like to see what the page looks like when those scripts are completely ...
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How do we configure another browser to use Tor? [closed]

How do we configure Google Chrome (or another web browser) to use Tor Browser? By that I mean that we are using Chrome, but the traffic is routed through Tor (and thus anonymous).
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Does anyone know of any good proxy browsers like Tor Browser? [closed]

Does anyone know of any other good proxy browsers like Tor Browser ? I'm not actually interested in whether it's a browser or webpage or not. But I want a secure solution, that of course supports ...
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Browser: Different settings per NIC

The machine has two NIC's, each connecting to a separate network. Network A is Internet facing and requires a proxy to do so Network B is an Intranet The problem is, if I set the proxy ...
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Way to Initiate Download remotely to another computer

I'm looking for a solution between a proxy and wget, since neither fully addresses the issue I'm trying to solve. I want to download files to a specific directory on my home machine (a Linux server - ...
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unable to connect to a certain website

I am currently developing a website for a client, I uploaded the web site files using an FTP client (filezilla), and I got a connection timeout during the upload, ever since then I couldn't access the ...
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Why are ALL my browsers slow? (But OK when I run Charles proxy?)

I have a PC that has equally severely degraded performance across all browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome), however the underlying connection seems ok (pings google at 40ms) and the other PC I have on the ...
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Saving Proxy Settings from different networks

I go to different clients and they all have their networks with different proxy settings. So I'm always having to change the proxy settings and saving the info in a notebook, and it becomes a pain ...
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websites are not loading in chrome but they work fine in firefox

Every page I try to go to in chrome says "This webpage is not available" but websites work fine in other browsers. I recently installed http://www.getwindmill.com/ just to experiment. I think my ...
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I'm using Firefox, configured to use a Squid proxy. Can the browser-proxy connection be HTTPS?

And what about Chrome, Opera, and Safari? (IE can go pound sand) Clarifying, I have the power to reconfigure Squid if necessary.
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Record browsing history

How can I record everything I browse so that, ideally, it might later enable me to re-surf the same pages without internet access ? For instance, if I go to http://www.example.com/example.html I would ...
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Bandwidth preserving browsing mode

I'm looking at some methods to browse the web, in situations where bandwidth is scarce (such as, flaky Wi-Fi connection, or mobile phone Internet provider who overcharges the bandwidth). One thing ...
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What proxy package to install under Ubuntu/OpenSUSE

I am looking for a software to isntall under Ubuntu or OpenSUSE so that my server can provide proxy to internal users. The proxy needs to support HTTP and HTTPS. Then, All I need to do is to point to ...
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PC's Proxy settings being overridden

I am running IE8 & Firefox 3.0.12 on an XP SP3 PC at work. I think some program is overwriting my proxy settings. How do I figure out what that program is? I set the proxy settings to : ...