Is there anything special in the way of configuration that
is required to enable a CentOS box to act as the point of
origin for an http request routed to it via a SOCKS ssh
link?
I have researched this matter and the recommended
procedure is to open an SSH connection to the desired host
passing the requisite switches so:
ssh -f -n -D <port> user at host.domain.tld
And then reconfigure the desired applications to use the
localhost:<port> as the SOCKS proxy.
However, I cannot seem to get this to work with my CentOS
based desktop to which I am trying to connect through a
public wireless network. I connect to the desktop via
terminal (on OSX-10.6.8 fine), but setting the browser,
Firefox-3.6.23, advanced network config to use
localhost:<port> as a SOCKSv5 proxy for http simply
results in the browser failing to show anything. I do not
get any error, I just get a blank page for whatever url I
try.
I have tried this with and without the iptables service
running on the target and achieved the same results.
Therefore I do not consider the firewall configuration on
the target to be the immediate problem.
Has anyone here tried to do this and succeeded?
Supplemental question: How does one route an https
connection to a non-standard port via SOCKS? How does one
configure a browser to do this?
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