On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use a remote obsd box as a socks proxy through ssh. > Both local and remote are 5.1-release. > > After reading man pages, I specified in local ssh_config: > Tunnel yes > > and, also, in remote sshd_config: > AllowTcpForwarding yes > PermitTunnel yes > > So, I basically establish a session like this: > # ssh -p <remote_sshd_port> -D 12345 user@mysshdserver > > and then, on local machine, I go with: > # http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:12345/"; lynx google.com > > Lynx makes HTTP connection to 127.0.0.1:12345 and then sends HTTP request; > the comes "Alert! Unexpected network read error; connection aborted." > > Using my local machine as the sshd server does not change the effect. > Also tried throwing in a linux box in the battlefield, but results are the > same. > Where is my mistake? > > Thanks for your advice! >
those are socks proxies, not http proxies, try something like dsocks...
