Automatically redirect to Webproxy
Mon, 03/02/2009 - 16:57 — Anonymous
Hey there,
at work, we use a socks 5 proxy to connect the browser to the web. however, we have a quite nasty content blocker on these proxies which leaves us with using a web proxy.
I'd really like to see an option in foxyproxy that would not only redirect traffic through a the socks proxy but also directly modify the http request to call a webproxy through the socks connection (modify the http request from http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org to http://proxy.org/proxy.pl?url=http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org - for example)
if you can access a ssh
if you can access a ssh server you could tunnel your data through it.
That's what I had to do, when stuck with Smartfilter BESS Edition.
& if you own the SSH server you have the added bonus of knowing that all the data is secure & the proxy owner is you so no one can spy on the you untill after it leaves your proxy.
It's what I did
That's right, you can use a
That's right, you can use a ssh server and tunnel the data. For some time I also used X11 forwarding to browse directly from the server. However, not everybody runs a ssh server and it's relatively safe to say that using a webproxy provides at least a bit more privacy and anonymous browsing to those that don't run a ssh server or do not even know what ssh means :)
Another option is to use
Another option is to use proxychains. With proxychains, you can chain proxy servers together (for example, your work's SOCKS server and an HTTP proxy server on the outside world). You don't have to run your own proxy server--that is the advantage.