Direct all traffic through a socks proxy

is this possible to direct all tcp/ip traffic through a socks proxy. how about just one application. can i socksify an application? tia

You want to utilize an upstream SOCKS proxy? I doubt it, you'd be better off setting up a VPN and routing your outbound traffic through that.

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Direct tcp/ip through socks proxy

is this possible to direct all tcp/ip traffic through a socks proxy. how about just one application. can i socksify an application? tia

hi baarney,
I am not very clear what you mean. Could you tell me more about it because
I have the same problem. And after connecting for a long time, I received this message "Malformed message from SOCKS server"
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Cannot connect socket through socks proxy

Hi,
I'm having problems connecting a socket through a socks proxy. I'm using the Apache Commons FTPClient, which I understand uses the standard java.net.Socket:
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System.setProperty("socksProxyPort", proxyPort);
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try {
ftp.connect(url);
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Is there anything I'm missing here? I've tried setting the proxy information on the command line when I run the test (java -DsocksProxyHost=proxy -DsocksProxyPort=1080) but that appeared to make no difference.
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hi baarney,
I am not very clear what you mean. Could you tell me more about it because
I have the same problem. And after connecting for a long time, I received this message "Malformed message from SOCKS server"
Forgot to add:
Running on Windows XP
java version "1.4.2_06"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_06-b03)
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Hey There,
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work so far. Currently, we are trying to make it work)
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How do I direct all internet traffic I on my firefox portable browser I use at school, through to my computer at home, so I can use my modem as a proxy?

My school has a web filter that prevents me from accessing any website I want to at school, and I want to get past it.
I know, from experience, that I can use a program called Ultrasurf to get around this, though it requires me to use IE, and is inconvenient.
I want to know if it's possible to configure the proxy settings on Firefox (and some on my modem/router, and/or computer at home), in order to direct all my traffic through my router at home, similarly to how one would use a proxy.
If so, how is this possible?
(I'm relatively experienced with computers, but have very little programming, and other complex knowledge of the workings of these things)
At home, my computer is running 64 bit Windows 7, has 4 GB of RAM, a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and can be turned on and online 24/7, such that if necessary, it can direct traffic sent to it.
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I'll be using whatever the latest (not beta) version of Firefox Portable exists when I return to school in a week.

My school has a web filter that prevents me from accessing any website I want to at school, and I want to get past it.
I know, from experience, that I can use a program called Ultrasurf to get around this, though it requires me to use IE, and is inconvenient.
I want to know if it's possible to configure the proxy settings on Firefox (and some on my modem/router, and/or computer at home), in order to direct all my traffic through my router at home, similarly to how one would use a proxy.
If so, how is this possible?
(I'm relatively experienced with computers, but have very little programming, and other complex knowledge of the workings of these things)
At home, my computer is running 64 bit Windows 7, has 4 GB of RAM, a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and can be turned on and online 24/7, such that if necessary, it can direct traffic sent to it.
My router/modem at home is (I believe) a Westell 327W, I can get more information by looking at it later if necessary.
At school, as of last year (and probably the same this year), the computers run Windows XP, and I am able to run programs installed on a flash drive on them, though cannot actually install programs on the computers themselves.
I'll be using whatever the latest (not beta) version of Firefox Portable exists when I return to school in a week.

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Is it at all possible to channel all/some data traffic through an established ipsec tunneled connection using the RVL200?
I have successfully established an ipsec connection through RVL200 and RV042 routers and are able to connect to servers/computers behind it.
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I keep getting the below error, there is no conflict with the IP address scheme and the password is correct.
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Tunnelling web traffic through ssh

for tunnelling web traffic through ssh, it says here
http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblog...fox-ssh-tunnel
that i have to set only the SOCKS Host text field in the edit>preferences>advanced>network>connection>settings
to localhost and the port i used for ssh but what about the other fields like http,ftp,gopher,and ssl proxy, shouldn't i need to set those too? if not why and what are those fields for anyway?
btw, is it possible to view streaming video like youtube.com while using a proxy? if so, then how would i go about it?

jordi wrote:
ssh -D 4444 (or any other port number) youruser@yourserver
see the manual:
-D [bind_address:] port
Specifies a local ''dynamic'' application-level port forwarding. This works by
allocating a socket to listen to port on the local side, optionally bound to
the specified bind_address. Whenever a connection is made to this port, the
connection is forwarded over the secure channel, and the application protocol
is then used to determine where to connect to from the remote machine. Cur‐
rently the SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 protocols are supported, and ssh will act as a
SOCKS server. Only root can forward privileged ports. Dynamic port forward‐
ings can also be specified in the configuration file.
streaming videos like youtube.com will be possible... surfing the web will be the same as without socks proxy...
I suggest to use a addon like FoxyProxy if you use socks proxy's a lot.
1) I already know the ssh part, im talking about the configuration in firefox, sorry if i didn't make this clear.
for tunnelling web traffic through ssh, it says here
http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblog...fox-ssh-tunnel
that i have to set only the SOCKS Host text field in the edit>preferences>advanced>network>connection>settings
to localhost and the port i used for ssh but what about the other fields like http,ftp,gopher,and ssl proxy, shouldn't i need to set those too? if not why and what are those fields for anyway?
2) and another thing about streaming videos, why is it that some proxies i have used before don't allow streaming traffic through?
ok it says here for vpn
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefi...213324,00.html#
An additional level of security involves encrypting not only the data, but also the originating and receiving network addresses.
3) so how would the routers know where to route the data if its encrypted? and how would i go about implementing that?
4) btw, is ssh tunnelling an implementation of vpn?
5) another question i have would be that for ssh tunnelling, it works at the transport layer onwards so only applications which are designed to use the port would go through the tunnel and be encrypted right, other apps would not go through the tunnel. On the contrary, IPsec works on the network layer so all information above the network layer whether they use UDP or TCP or whatever ports for TCP would go through the tunnel and be encrypted. Are the above statements correct?
Last edited by unregistered (2008-05-11 08:39:19)

Authenticating to Socks proxy using different accounts in a given JVM

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Regards,
Sai Pullabhotla

I tried implementing the ThreadLocal idea and I think the code is working as expected, but my proxy logs are not matching up with what the code says. Below is the code I've including a test class. See below the code for my additional comments.
import java.net.Authenticator;
import java.net.PasswordAuthentication;
* A customer authenticator for authenticating with SOCKS Proxy servers.
public class ProxyAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
      * A thread local for storing the credentials to the SOCKS proxy. The Javadoc
      * for ThreadLocal says they are typically used for static fields, but
      * here I've a singleton instance. Hope this is not an issue.
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      * Creates a new instance of <code>ProxyAuthenticator</code>. Each thread
      * will have its own copy of credentials, which would be <code>null</code>
      * initially. Each thread must call the <code>setCredentials</code> method
      * to set the proxy credentials if needed.
     private ProxyAuthenticator() {
          credentials = new ThreadLocal<PasswordAuthentication>() {
               @Override
               protected PasswordAuthentication initialValue() {
                    System.out.println("ThreadLocal initialized for "
                         + Thread.currentThread().getName());
                    return null;
               @Override
               public void set(PasswordAuthentication value) {
                    System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " SET");
                    super.set(value);
               @Override
               public PasswordAuthentication get() {
                    System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " GET");
                    return super.get();
      * Returns the singleton instance of this class.
      * @return the singleton instance of this class.
     public static synchronized ProxyAuthenticator getInstance() {
          if (instance == null) {
               instance = new ProxyAuthenticator();
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      * Sets the proxy creditials. This method updates the ThreadLocal variable.
      * @param user
      *            the user name
      * @param password
      *            the password
     public void setCredentials(String user, String password) {
          credentials.set(new PasswordAuthentication(user, password.toCharArray()));
     @Override
     public PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
          System.out.println("Requesting host: " + this.getRequestingHost());
          System.out.println("Requesting port: " + this.getRequestingPort());
          System.out.println("Requesting protocol: "
               + this.getRequestingProtocol());
          System.out.println("Requesting prompt: " + this.getRequestingPrompt());
          System.out.println("Requesting scheme: " + this.getRequestingScheme());
          System.out.println("Requesting site: " + this.getRequestingSite());
          System.out.println("Requesting URL: " + this.getRequestingURL());
          System.out.println("Requestor type: " + this.getRequestorType());
          System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName()
               + " Authenitcator returning credentials "
               + credentials.get().getUserName() + ":"
               + new String(credentials.get().getPassword()));
          return credentials.get();
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.Authenticator;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.Proxy;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.Proxy.Type;
* A test class for testing the {@link ProxyAuthenticator}.
public class SocksProxyTest implements Runnable {
      * Socks proxy host, used by the FakeFtpClient
     private static final String SOCKS_PROXY_HOST = "192.168.1.240";
      * Target FTP host to connect to
     private String host = null;
      * Proxy user
     private String proxyUser = null;
      * Proxy password
     private String proxyPassword = null;
      * Creates a new instance of <code>SocksProxyTest</code>
      * @param host
      *            the target FTP host
      * @param proxyUser
      *            proxy user
      * @param proxyPassword
      *            proxy password
     public SocksProxyTest(String host, String proxyUser, String proxyPassword) {
          this.host = host;
          this.proxyUser = proxyUser;
          this.proxyPassword = proxyPassword;
     public void run() {
          // Create the FakeFtpClient
          FakeFtpClient test = new FakeFtpClient(host, 21, proxyUser,
               proxyPassword);
          for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
               try {
                    test.connect();
                    test.disconnect();
                    // Thread.sleep(10000);
               catch (Throwable t) {
                    t.printStackTrace();
      * Test run.
      * @param args
      *            command line arguments
      * @throws IOException
      *             propagated
     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
          // Get the singleton instance of the ProxyAuthenticator.
          ProxyAuthenticator authenticator = ProxyAuthenticator.getInstance();
          // Update the default authenticator to our ProxyAuthenticator
          Authenticator.setDefault(authenticator);
          // Array of FTP hosts we want to connect to
          final String[] ftpHosts = { "192.168.1.53", "192.168.1.54",
                    "192.168.1.55" };
          // Proxy login/user names to connect to each of the above hosts
          final String[] users = { "User-001", "User-002", "User-003" };
          // Proxy passwords for each of the above user names (in this case
          // password == username).
          final String[] passwords = users;
          // For each target FTP host
          for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
               // Create the SocksProxyTest instance with the target host, proxy
               // user and proxy password
               SocksProxyTest spt = new SocksProxyTest(ftpHosts, users[i],
                    passwords[i]);
               // Create a new thread and start it
               Thread t = new Thread(spt);
               t.setName("T" + (i + 1));
               try {
                    t.join();
               catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
               t.start();
     * A fake FTP client. The connect method connects to the given host, reads
     * the first line the server sends. Does nothing else. The disconnect method
     * closes the socket.
     private static class FakeFtpClient {
          * The FTP host
          private String host = null;
          * The FTP port
          private int port = 0;
          * Proxy login/user name
          private String proxyUser = null;
          * Proxy password
          private String proxyPassword = null;
          * Socket to the target host
          private Socket s = null;
          * Creates a new instance of <code>FakeFtpClient</code>
          * @param host
          * the FTP host
          * @param port
          * the FTP port
          * @param proxyUser
          * Proxy user
          * @param proxyPassword
          * Proxy password
          public FakeFtpClient(String host, int port, String proxyUser,
               String proxyPassword) {
               this.host = host;
               this.port = port;
               this.proxyUser = proxyUser;
               this.proxyPassword = proxyPassword;
          * Connects to the target FTP host through the specified Socks proxy and
          * proxy authentication. Reads the first line of the welcome message.
          * @throws IOException
          * propagated
          public void connect() throws IOException {
               System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName()
                    + " Connecting to " + host + " ...");
               // Update the ProxyAuthenticator with the correct credentials for
               // this thread
               ProxyAuthenticator.getInstance().setCredentials(proxyUser,
                    proxyPassword);
               s = new Socket(new Proxy(Type.SOCKS, new InetSocketAddress(
                    SOCKS_PROXY_HOST, 1080)));
               s.setSoTimeout(10000);
               s.connect(new InetSocketAddress(host, port), 10000);
               System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " Connected");
               BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(
                    s.getOutputStream()));
               BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    s.getInputStream()));
               System.out.println(reader.readLine());
          * Closes the socket.
          public void disconnect() {
               System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName()
                    + " Disconnecting...");
               if (s != null) {
                    try {
                         s.close();
                         System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName()
                              + " Disconnected");
                    catch (IOException e) {
                         e.printStackTrace();
Looking at the test class, it creates 3 threads T1, T2 and T3. T1 is setup to connect to 192.168.1.53 using a proxy user User-001 and T2 is setup to connect to 192.168.1.54 using proxy user User-002 and T3 connects to 192.168.1.55 using proxy user User-003.
Each thread then loops 5 times to connect to their target servers and disconnect each time. All the debug (System.out) statements indicate that the getPasswordAuthentication is returning the correct credentials for each thread. However, when I look at the logs on the proxy server, the results are different and arbitrary.
Below is the proxy log:
[2011-01-24 11:10:11] 192.168.1.240 User-001 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.54:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:11] 192.168.1.240 User-002 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.53:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:11] 192.168.1.240 User-002 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.55:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:11] 192.168.1.240 User-003 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.55:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:11] 192.168.1.240 User-003 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.55:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:11] 192.168.1.240 User-003 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.55:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:11] 192.168.1.240 User-003 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.55:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:11] 192.168.1.240 User-003 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.54:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:11] 192.168.1.240 User-002 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.53:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:12] 192.168.1.240 User-001 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.54:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:12] 192.168.1.240 User-002 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.53:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:12] 192.168.1.240 User-001 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.54:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:12] 192.168.1.240 User-002 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.53:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:12] 192.168.1.240 User-001 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.54:21
[2011-01-24 11:10:13] 192.168.1.240 User-002 SOCKS5 CONNECT 192.168.1.53:21
As you can see from the first line in the log, the proxy says User-001 connected to 192.168.1.54, but the code should always connect to 192.168.1.53 with user User-001.
Any idea on what might be going on?

Mail.app in 10.4.7: SOCKS proxy issues again...

Hi,
Today I've updated my PowerBook to MacOS X 10.4.7. All the process was fine, but Mail didn't connect to any server. After reading some posts in this forum I've unmarked the SOCKS proxy settings in the Network pref. pane, and I've recovered the 10.4.6 functionallity. So at least I can work.
When I'm at office, we have an Exchange server with direct access in the network ( is because this that proxy is not needed ). Also a proxy server controls the Internet access.
What is not working in Mail ( or I don't know how to use it ) now is the following:
- Local access to Exchange server is only possible using a POP account. An Exchange account doesn't work because is always asking the password.
- I need to disable the SOCKS proxy to be able to access the local mail server. So the 'Bypass proxy settings' in the Network preference pane seems to not work ( I've tried all kind of syntaxs: *.domain, server.domain, IP address, etc. )
- With the SOCKS proxy settings active in my corporate network, I cannot access external mail accounts in external servers. I've tried IMAP and POP accounts with the same result: nothing. This is the same issue than in previous version of Mail.app.
So waiting again for a Mail patch...
Regards,
Joan B. Altadill
PowerBook 17 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 10.4.7 !!!!!
PowerBook 17 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 10.4.7 !!!!!

Hi,
Today I've updated my PowerBook to MacOS X 10.4.7. All the process was fine, but Mail didn't connect to any server. After reading some posts in this forum I've unmarked the SOCKS proxy settings in the Network pref. pane, and I've recovered the 10.4.6 functionallity. So at least I can work.
When I'm at office, we have an Exchange server with direct access in the network ( is because this that proxy is not needed ). Also a proxy server controls the Internet access.
What is not working in Mail ( or I don't know how to use it ) now is the following:
- Local access to Exchange server is only possible using a POP account. An Exchange account doesn't work because is always asking the password.
- I need to disable the SOCKS proxy to be able to access the local mail server. So the 'Bypass proxy settings' in the Network preference pane seems to not work ( I've tried all kind of syntaxs: *.domain, server.domain, IP address, etc. )
- With the SOCKS proxy settings active in my corporate network, I cannot access external mail accounts in external servers. I've tried IMAP and POP accounts with the same result: nothing. This is the same issue than in previous version of Mail.app.
So waiting again for a Mail patch...
Regards,
Joan B. Altadill
PowerBook 17 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 10.4.7 !!!!!
PowerBook 17 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 10.4.7 !!!!!

Socks proxy not honoured in mail

While using a ssh tunnel with a setting (DynamicForward 1456)
Then in the system preferences i've set the socks proxy to localhost on port 1456
Mail doesn't seem to honor the system wide socks proxy while, Entourage works perfectly without missing a beat (Setup with the exact same account as Mail).
Has anyone had success with this everything else on the system goes through the local socks proxy (e.g. Safari , entourage)

Ok i've made a work around that will use local forwards instead of dynamic forwards and i've made an apple script that will switch all the settings for me.
set buttonTunnel to "Tunnel"
set buttonNormal to "Normal"
set result to display dialog "hey" buttons {buttonTunnel, buttonNormal}
set theButton to button returned of result
if theButton is equal to buttonTunnel then
tell application "Mail"
tell account "MainAccount"
set server name to "localhost"
set port to 1110
set uses ssl to false
end tell
set smtp server of account "MainAccount" to smtp server "localhost:UserNAME"
tell account "SecondAccount"
set port to 1111
set server name to "localhost"
end tell
set smtp server of account "SecondAccount" to smtp server "localhost:UserNAME"
end tell
else
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tell account "MainAccount"
set server name to "mail.MainAccount.com"
set port to 995
set uses ssl to true
end tell
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tell account "SecondAccount"
set port to 110
set server name to "mail.SecondAccount.net"
end tell
set smtp server of account "SecondAccount" to smtp server "mail.MainAccount.com.au:UserNAME"
end tell
end if

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