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Monday, June 23, 2008

using putty as a SOCKSv5 proxy to tunnel firefox

without the need to run squid or anything on the linux side !

 

in putty configure a tunnel as "Dynamic" to port 8080 without destination :

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Add :

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in firefox :

configure proxy settings - SOCKS host 127.0.0.1, port 8080, SOCKS v5

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