Thread: How to use SOCKS proxy for N900?
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teddybw is offline teddybw
2009-12-30 , 06:42
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Originally Posted by andree View Post
try about:config (enter as url in microB=firefox) - and see network.proxy.socks items ....

as for the shell commands - there's no universal way, but you can always view contents of the deb packages you are installing...
Thank you for the about:config stuff. I am using a prepaid Sidekick data plan on N900, so at least HTTP port 80 is blocked. After setting up the socks proxy, I am supposed to route all http traffic through the socks tunnel I set up using

ssh -D * username@host

where * is the port number. I tried the 1080 (default), 143 (used by IMAP which works fine under Sidekick), 3128 (used by a free HTTP proxy which works fine if I set up the http proxy in TMobile Internet) and 8080 (T-Mobile HTTP proxy). Unfortunately, however, none of them work for me to access www pages. Neither can I visit web pages even if I enable ssh tunnel for DNS.

What's wrong?

Thanks again.