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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curl: (35) schannel: next InitializeSecurityContext failed - The revocation function was unable to check revocation for the certificate

tl;dr How can I fix "The revocation function was unable to check revocation for the certificate" when using a custom proxy+cert combination? Can I disable this check somehow for the whole ...
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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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An unrelated program (Clash for Windows) links to FFmpeg libraries. Can it be spyware?

Update: today I found some decisive evidence on its misbehaviour. Sandbox analysis from VirusTotal on its installer reports video capturing capability using webcam. See the link to its analysis here. ...
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Squid behind Apache 2.4

I need to locate a Squid instance as a forward proxy behind Apache 2.4.6. I don't have enough credits to add inline images. But here it is As Squid3.3 listens on localhost:3128 and works OK with ...
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Proxy server that is light on dependencies for CentOS [closed]

I need to install an application on my VPS running Centos which has only 1GB RAM and 1vCPU that allows my Firefox (running on my home computer) to connect to the server in such a way that the server ...
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Connect to a device on another subnet using 3rd device as a proxy

I have a device with a HTTPS web portal that only has an ethernet port. However I am unable to get an ethernet cable to the where the device lives, it is however able to receive WiFi. I was planing on ...
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Disconnections during login based on IP or how?

I have issues (it seems many people have) to connect to PlayStation site, since when trying to login usually gives server connection error. It seems is a security feature of that website. As they ...
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Detecting whether a proxy is HTTP or SOCKS

Based on the long search in net I came to know that SOCKS uses a handshake protocol to inform the proxy software about the connection that the client is trying to make, and then acts as transparently ...
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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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How to configure two Ubuntu servers in a LAN

I have been running a Kubuntu 22.04 server on my LAN for some time. It runs on Apache with domains, a mail server for two domains, on Nextcloud and Jellyfin domains, Samba locally for LAN sharing. I ...
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'Proxy Connect ABORTED' error behind Proxy accessing GitHub

Our proxy server is giving a Connection ABORTED error when connecting to GitHub. GitHub is on the allow list. Any tips for the networking team? Could this be a problem with cURL? ubuntu@ip-10-xxx-xxx-...
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Shadowsocks won't open. Unexpected Error. Windows 10. Pls advice

I am trying to use Shadowsocks. When I open it this error shows: error This is a somewhat fresh Windows 10 Pro install. Interesting thing is I have same Windows 10 image on virtual host and ...
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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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HTTP tunnel proxy solutions to escape corporate proxy & firewall

I have a system in a corporate network with a very restrive firewall: no SSH only direct traffic allowed is to the corporate HTTP proxy server (80/443) Deep Packet Inspection I would like to setup a ...
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How can I point a domain to a server with static residential IP and port number?

I run a server on a residential connection with a static IP. My residential connection blocks listening on port 80, but I can set the server to listen on any port. I own a domain name and currently ...
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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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Proxy + SSL leads to error with Firefox

I would like to access a website within the company domain remotely. For reasons beyond my control they allow ssh but not vpn. However I struggle with my setup: My first step was: ssh -ND 1082 ***@**...
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Tor Browser cannot bind SOCKS port 9050: How to change browser settings? (not torrc)

I’m having an insanely frustrating problem. I have no router right now, and am at the mercy of the ISP gateway, and they don’t give permission to port 9050. Starting Tor Browser, I instantly get ...
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detecting packets at a certain port

This the python script for my proxy web server: #!/usr/bin/python3 from socket import * sockobj = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM) sockobj.bind(('', 5000)) sockobj.listen(10) while True: ...
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How to config proxy in Ubuntu on VirtualBox

All: I am new to virtualbox. I install virtualbox on a WIndow7x64 box(IP: 45.37.2.38, Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway:45.37.2.1) which is behind office's proxy, inside virtualbox, I install Ubuntu 14.04 ...
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Forward Wireguard traffic through Shadowsocks

I want to set up Wireguard obfuscation through Shadowsocks because WG stopped working due to ISPs in my country starting to block Wireguard and OpenVPN connections to foreign servers. I've tried to ...
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Why doesn’t Squid proxy add X-Forwarded-For and Via headers as it should?

According to the Squid proxy documentation the Via and Forwarded-For Headers should be set per Default, but they aren't showing up in my configuration. I installed a freshly instance of Squid and to ...
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Debian VPS based Proxies only work on some websites. How to troubleshoot?

I originally posted this questions on Serverfault since it seemed that my server was at least partially “broken”, hence “faulted”. A User (djdomi) on that forum said that I had mis-posted. He/she ...
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How to do a proxychains of 2 proxy using redsocks?

Redsocks doesnt allow to do proxy chaining. I need to forward all the https and http request coming from the outside to a chain of 2 proxy. Is there transparent proxy that allow proxy-chaining ?
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How to redirect traffic coming from exterior to a proxy chains of 2 proxy?

I'm using redsocks to redirect the incoming non-local traffic to forward it to a socks5 proxy. Unfortunately,redsocks does not support proxy chaining, So I tried to do a turn around by running 2 ...
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Wireguard Server forwarding HTTP requests from Wireguard Clients to external Proxy

I set up a Wireguard server and some Wireguard clients. All the traffic from the clients is routed through the server. Now my public IP of the server is blacklistet as VPN-IP and I cannot access ...
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Can I access multiple OpenVPN connections, each accessed through socks proxy?

I have a piece of software, I'll call it "FooSoft" here, which needs to connect to multiple devices on networks protected by a variety of third party VPNs. Each VPN is independent and I have ...
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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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Proxy on one SSID with OpenWRT

I've bought a new Asus RT-AX53U router and installed OpenWRT. I want to create 2+ separate SSIDs, where one (ssid_default) should work like default tunnel to net, and another one (ssid_proxy) should ...
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Powershell Core on linux through Proxy connection issues

I am unable to get Powershell Core 6.1.0 on Linux to access a proxy successfully. Our corporate proxy utilizes IP based authentication and not user based. So when I attempt to Invoke-WebRequest a ...
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How to proxy all traffic received by Windows using Linux and redsocks?

I have a Windows machine where all of it's traffic is routed through a Linux machine simply by doing changing the Windows route : route add 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.48 where 192.168.1.48 is the ...
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Why am I not able to block a site in CCProxy server?

I have installed CCProxy server and have setup Firefox to use this proxy server. Now I am trying out different features of proxy server. For testing purpose, I want to check blocking of stackoverflow....
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I can't access Stack Overflow with Windows 11 + Wifi 6 router + Organization proxies

I am unable to access stackoverflow.com when using a modern router supporting Wi-Fi 6 via mainstream browsers (Edge, Firefox, Chrome). I can access all Stack Exchange sites, such as superuser, ...
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How to disable proxy setup script on Windows 10 using a script?

In Edge, settings> system > Open your computer's proxy settings I have this I need to untoggle the "Use setup script", using a script, since there is some background process I can't ...
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Force specific application to use VPN/Proxy?

I play Blizzard games. But couple days in a row Blizzard application says "You've made too many attempts." and I can't login on my PC. Same if I rty to login on web page, but with browser ...
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Running forward proxy over openvpn

Where I live, there is quite a bit of censorship on the internet, and so I hope to be able to run a proxy on my home server which passes all my internet traffic through an openvpn tunnel, such that I ...
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Using a shared file as a tunnel (socat ?)

I'm trying to proxify a Citrix connexion. As you may know, you can have shared file under Citrix ICA (shared between the client and the server), and I'd like to use this possibility to mount a "tunnel"...
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How to fake an external server for a client device?

TL;DR: How do I redirect all HTTP traffic of connected devices on a self-controlled Linux WiFi Access Point to Apache/nginx on the same machine and let Apache/nginx respond back? Scenario: I have a ...
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Windows Proxy Settings

I work at a company where I need to access external websites through a proxy on Windows, and every time I do this I have to manually enter my LDAP credentials, which is making me quite irritated. I ...
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Internet proxy not working until IE is refreshed

My work PC was recently upgraded to Windows 7, and now I'm noticing strange behaviour: Chrome would frequently, usually within the hour or so, fail to access the web. I get the error "The webpage is ...
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CNTLM for Windows stopped working

I have Windows 8.1 64bit and CNTLM version 0.92.3. It was working perfectly on my machine before it stopped working 1 week ago. The service still starts correctly but when i use cntlm proxy this ...
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On Windows 10 how do I display proxy settings from CLI

I need the proxy settings for a command line tool. I know it's set to auto-detect but I still need to know what they are exactly. Note that if I do this in Chrome: chrome://net-internals/#proxy .....
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Connection timed out when connecting to a remote tcp port

I have deployed my application on Linux CentOS. The app connects to a remote TCP port but it throws a connect timed out exception. I tried to connect it via telnet but the port doesn't respond. I am ...
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Using the Android phone VPN on my PC

Here is what I am trying to accomplish. I want to connect to a VPN service on my Android phone. Then, I want to be able to use that VPN service on my PC. I have tried using the Hotspot tethering ...
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Local proxy behind cloudflare tunnel

There are a lot of similar questions out there, which look like the same, but they all want actually something different or were never answered, I hope you can help me with that. I recently bought a ...
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Burp suite is not intercepting localhost | bWAPP | Burp Suite

I am trying to get learn web application security using bWAPP (A buggy web application) which is hosted using Xampp on windows machine. I have configured the proxy (127.0.0.1:8080) in browser properly ...
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How do I route all my desktop's traffic through the Shadowsocks client?

I've got a Rust implementation of Shadowsocks (no plug-ins) server, which can be found here, running on my VPS but I have no idea how to configure a client correctly so that all my desktop's outgoing ...
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IPv4 to IPv6 address translation in Windows7

I have a Windows 7 PC connected to a IPv6 network. On the PC I have an application that needs to communicate with another IPv6 machine. The application can only be configured with an IPv4 address. Is ...
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Use NGINX to serve as both webhost + direct subdomain request to dockerserver:port

First, I struggled hard with the title. I've been trying back and forth, googling like mad and the resources I find are most likely way to complicated for me. But I find it so unbelievable that it's ...
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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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