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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NTLM Proxy - HTTPS Alternative to CNTLM?
I worked with a proxy at my office that I need to have applications use. Of course its using NTLM, and that's blocking a lot of stuff from using their default/built-in proxies.
I've got Maven, ...
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Pass VirtualBox Guest connections through proxy
The computer is inside a company and only have internet access through proxy. I want the guest inside the VirtualBox to access the internet without changing anything in the guest. The host is Windows ...
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Windows hosts file alternative without needing admin rights?
I was inspired by DNS66, an app available to Android, which used a fake DNS server that dropped outgoing DNS requests to certain hosts. This way, it didn't need to modify the /etc/hosts file, thus not ...
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Charles proxy doesn't work with VPN
I'm stuck at setting Charles proxy to work throught VPN. It captures the traffic without VPN, but when I use VPN it doesn't capture anything.
The docs suggest to enable VPN first and then to launch ...
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How to force a specific software to use proxy?
I want to use a Tor SOCKS proxy on some programs (e.g. Android Studio) but not all.
I'm a Windows 10 user. How can I do that?
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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 use Firefox and other non-RFC1929 complaint programs with auth'ed SOCKS5? Local proxy chainer?
I own a SOCKS5 subscription which requires authentication. I want to use it with FoxyProxy and other programs which do not support auth'ed socks5 (just SOCKS5 with no auth). Note that you cannot enter ...
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What causes "Downloading proxy script..." | Any cons for disabling "Automatically detect settings" | Google Chrome
Many times I installed/reinstalled Windows 10 on different devices.
Every time after install, Chrome works perfect without issues.
But after a few hours/days it causes the "Downloading proxy script..."...
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Why dosen't curl seem to work behind a proxy?
When using curl behind a proxy,
curl -O -fsSL https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow-serving-apt/tensorflow-serving.release.pub.gpg -v -k -x http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080
I've got an error as ...
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Running bash or cmd with Proxifier
I'm using Proxifier 3 on Windows 10 (1803). I've successfully created a proxy rule for Google Chrome and certain domain names.
However, I can't make it work for cmd.exe or the WSL terminal (bash).
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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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SSH reverse proxy
I am setting up a Gitlab server (https://about.gitlab.com/) inside a virtual machine using KVM on a Ubuntu 14.04 host. My university charges us for every external IP address, so I cannot use bridged ...
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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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v2rayA and Qv2ray don't work systemwide
I live in Iran and to bypass the filtering, I have resorted to v2ray and shadowsocks since most VPNS are blocked in my country. On my phone, I use V2rayNG which works just fine for vmess and ...
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launch a single Edge tab with proxy server
I am using mitmproxy on windows 11 in standard mode it is listening on localhost:8080. I don't want to reconfigure my system proxy. I just want to reconfigure my proxy for one browser tab (or new ...
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Why does Chrome have TTL -1000 in the DNS Cache?
I am working in a corporate environment, using Chrome. I am investigating some weird behavior, which may or may not turn out to be DNS-based.
If I navigate to:
chrome://net-internals/hostresolver#...
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Handling 2FA URLs behind a Restricted Network
I have an application which uses a Payment Gateway from a local bank (Bank A). The application is behind a restricted network (It wasn't until the Wannacry Ransomware hit).
In this case, the network ...
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Hiding CONNECT requests in Charles Proxy
I get a lots of noise when using Charles including requests from background processes, browser extensions, and webpages open in inactive tabs in Chrome. Most of these requests come in the form of HTTP ...
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How can I proxy without context path?
I have been using apache/sonar like this.
<Proxy http://localhost:7070/sonar*>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass /sonar http://...
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How can I verify that Polipo is caching?
I'm making requests to several thousand unique URLs on each run of a JVM program, and I want to cache the requests.
I've got Polipo up and running, and I've configured my Java app to proxy HTTP ...
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Using OpenVPN, yet netflix.com blocks access
I have set up an OpenVPN server on a VPS in the USA and configured it to route all clients traffic through it. Everything seems to work fine regarding the VPN connection in gerneral. All ip lookup ...
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Proxies, Apache, Tomcat - VHosts
I have a setup as so:
Internet -- router -[DMZ]- pfsense -- webserver
router =jenky plastic cheap-o router (my nice mikrotik/routerboard died). Has ip address of pfsense set to DMZ.
pfsense =...
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Accessing blocked websites in a country with Internet censorship; preferably with whitelisting, to allow normal connection for non-blocked websites
I will be staying in a country that has Internet censorship in the near future (it's one of these countries: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Internet_censorship#Substantial ) and I ...
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PS4 Voice Chat workaround
Problem
Currently unable to use the voice chat feature for parties on the PS4.
Equipment List
PS4
Linksys WRT1900ac (stock firmware, current main router)
Linksys WRT54GL (DD-WRT firmware, backup ...
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Can't forward dynamic port to host using SSH
I'm trying to set up a SOCKS proxy server on HostA from HostC (which has external access to the internet) through HostB. After configuring PermitTunnel yes on /etc/ssh/sshd_config on HostC, I managed ...
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How to avoid TCP/IP Fingerprinting
I have the following setup:
+-----------+ SSH Tunnels Over Socks5 Proxy +--------------+
| | | |
| Linux PC +-------------------------...
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How do i configure tinyproxy to foward traffic to another proxy
Is it possible to configure tinyproxy to forward its traffic to another proxy so it looks like
broadcasted through wifi
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Error with Cisco Anyconnect on Mac OS behind a proxy
I am trying to connect to my corporate VPN using Cisco Anyconnect V.4.7.04056 on Mac Os 10.14.6.
My Mac is on a wired lan that requires the use of a proxy server in order to access the internet. The ...
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Installation of conda channel packages with Nexus
I have a problem to install conda channel packages via Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager (Version: PRO 3.16.1-02).
E.g. the following code
conda install pytorch::pytorch==1.1.0
#is equivalent to:
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Eclipse: Failed to connect sshd on "hostname" Auth Fail
I have the following issue when I try to start an ssh interface (shell) to a Unix host using Eclipse (Remote System Explorer)
I think that there is an issue related to the (Generate RSA Key: ...
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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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GIT For Windows - Failed to receive handshake, SSL/TLS connection failed
There have been many questions asked on this subject but none of them have a definitive answer.
I am developing in Visual Studio 2017 (v15.8.5) on a company network, behind proxy with my Git ...
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macOS proxy.pac not working?
Under Network->Advanced->Proxies->Automatic Proxy Configuration I have it set to http://www.sendu.me.uk/sanger/proxy.pac, the contents of which are:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
if ((...
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nginx port forwarding / ssh tunneling
I have a computer (let's call it A) on a local network with no static IP address accessible from the outside. (SSH port AAAAA)
A has a webserver that I want to be able to access from the outside
I ...
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Why does SSH dynamicforward result in some kind of loop leading to "too many open files" error
I would like to understand why my SSH client gives me this error:
channel 1017: open failed: connect failed: open failed
channel 1017: open failed: connect failed: Too many open files
channel 1017: ...
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Hosts entry getting ignored when in vpn
I am using Mac and I added entry for myname.local in hosts file. But when I try to reach myname.local:8000 my browser is directly going to dns. I have verified that I have entry in bypass proxy for *....
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SSH not creating dynamic forwarding, why?
Edit: meanwhile, I filed a bug with openSSH (https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2577). Should there be any outcome, I will post it here, too.
New edit: this limitation will be solved in ...
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Yocto, Bitbake: List of files, which are to download in the build-process
I started to set up Yocto and followed the official documentation. Problem is the companies' firewall, which doesn't allow me to access all files bitbake wants to download.
Now I try to find out where ...
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Using Fiddler to sniff HTTPS requests of any process (Proxifier)
As far as I understand Fiddler, it simply listens on localhost:8888 and changes the windows proxy settings to exactly that. So that every application that connects using that proxy sends the data ...
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setting proxy with username & password & proxy server?
IE proxy setting dialog looks like this:
Through some applications (for e.g. npm) I've to set proxy details using the following pattern (using their specific api or commandline tools):
http://...
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Basic Proxy Server config fails for some websites. TCP_MISS and TCP_MISS_ABORTED ISSUES?
I have a basic installation of squid working on Ubuntu 14.04. All I want really is to log requests made. I don't really care for ACL or caching. Perhaps later. I looked at the long squid.conf file ...
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docker-machine behind corporate proxy
I've installed Machine (Docker tool), and I'm trying to learn how to use it by following the user guide. I'm running centOS 6.6
As I am working behind a company proxy, I exported some environnement ...
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Apache Spark cluster through a proxy?
This is more a speculative question to those with more networking / Apache Spark experience than me.
My current setup: two 32GB, 4GHz Core i7 machines I'd love to tie into a Spark cluster. However, ...
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SSH tunnel freezes and says "administratively prohibited" when a domain cannot be resolved
So I am opening a SSH tunnel to a remote server to use it as proxy:
ssh -D 10000 -N remote
I use FireFox with FoxyProxy and it is working quite well. Except sometimes the tunnel freezes. A good ...
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ssh proxycommand equivalent on server
Lets say we have three machines me, proxy, server
I would like to have an ssh connection to server, so normally I would do
me$ ssh proxy
proxy$ ssh server
server$ # and here we are
ssh proxy ...
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Debugging secure websocket traffic on android
Anyone have any good recommendations for debugging/intercepting the secure websocket traffic directed at any given port from an app running on my android? Trying to do some testing and other apps like ...
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Watching Netflix through a VPN
Recently I bought a VPS from DigitalOcean. I setup a PPTP VPN so I could watch us Netflix content from outside the US. Now that I have it setup and all my traffic is going through the VPN, Netflix is ...
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Automatically use saved proxy authentication on Windows
Is there some method to prevent Windows (or the browser) from popping up the proxy authentication dialog every time I open a browser? Surely there should be some setting to use my user name and ...
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How can I set up a local SOCKS5 proxy whose only purpose is to chain to an authenticated SOCKS5 proxy -- on OS-X?
For access to certain resources, I use an authenticated SOCKS5 proxy which runs on a remote server. For various reasons, I don't want to use that proxy system-wide, only with specific applications.
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How to make a TeamViewer proxy on a Windows 8 machine?
I sit on a corporate network which routes all the traffic through a proxy. This proxy routing happens after the computer is connected to the network, because no setup is needed on the computers that ...
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