Thread: SOCKS5 Proxy and N800
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InfinityDevil is offline InfinityDevil
2008-01-07 , 18:16
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#30
Originally Posted by ydant View Post
InfinityDevil, the problem with your method is there's never any clear indication of if the proxy is being used since each new connection returns it to the unsocked configuration. The whole point (for me) is to always have a tunnel out of the untrusted network I'm on.

Thanks for writing it up - I definitely appreciate that. My intent isn't to be overly critical, it's just a flaw in not having an always-on configuration setting.
Ydant, how would you envision getting a clear indication of whether a tunnel is being used or not? Whatever app you're using to tunnel your data will run behind the scenes. It's a fault in the microb browser that it won't keep the proxy on between runtimes, not in anything you'll run to tunnel your data.

Perhaps a page could be written onto the local filesystem to detect the browser setting and display it and that would be your start page? Maybe click a link from there to turn on the proxy setting?

qole, you're right I basically mirrored what you're seeing. As I mentioned to ydant above, however, aside from getting a browser that remembers what your settings are, how is using the SSH call and then opening the app set to the SOCKS5 setting going to be improved by using tsocks?