From the course: Linux Tips

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts.

Using a SOCKS proxy

Using a SOCKS proxy - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux Tips

Using a SOCKS proxy

- [Speaker] SOCKS or Socket Secure is a way of changing the way that your web traffic reaches the web. It involves setting up a proxy server which your browser communicates with, and which handles traffic to and from remote websites. In this way it works kind of like a VPN but just for web traffic rather than all the traffic on the system. Proxying is different from packet routing because it works at a different layer of the network, and not all the traffic is sent through the proxy. Only traffic from applications configure to use the proxy will pass through it. While there are some dedicated software packages out there, the OpenSSH package we use to connect to a system remotely can act as a SOCKS proxy as well. The basic idea is this you instruct the system, in our case running SSH server software to open up a local cord that supports dynamic forwarding at the application level. Then we point a web browser to that port. And any web browsing traffic is sent to the remote system on the…

Contents