Re: ssh as socks proxy

From: Wolfgang Meiners (WolfgangMeiners01_at_web.de)
Date: 10/27/05

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    Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:01:41 +0200

    Todd H. wrote:

    > Wolfgang Meiners <WolfgangMeiners01@web.de> writes:
    >>
    >> laptop> ssh -D 9080 user@desktop
    >>
    >> (of course, user is a valid user at the desktop)
    >> then, i configured the laptop-browser to use
    >>
    >> localhost:9080
    >>
    >> as http-proxy server. I thought, i would be able, to surf on the laptop
    >> via the ssh connection over the desktop to the internet. But typing an
    >> address like
    >>
    >> www.google.de
    >>
    >> in the laptop browser, simply nothing happens.
    >
    > Two things:
    > you're setting http proxy, and you want to be setting SOCKS
    > proxy in your browser.
    >
    > Try 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost to head off a possible
    > braind deadness of the OS in question.
    >
    >

    That works. Thank you
    Wolfgang

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