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Using SSH tunnel connection as a SOCKS5 proxy (kovyrin.net)
4 points by tomh on Feb 3, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



May I recommend proxifier for mac.

I had a slightly different problem the other day. I'm abroad, and wanted to watch Hulu, but it's blocked from outside the US. SOCKS to the rescue, right? I'll just use a friends box back home.

Well, opening an ssh connection and telling firefox/safari to use a SOCKS proxy sort of worked, but hulu uses flash's RTMP to ignore the proxy settings of the browser and connect on a different port. Bastards.

That's when I found proxifier. I can tell it to route ALL safari traffic over my little ssh connection back to the states. Worked like a charm.


Doesn't look like Hulu is doing anything on purpose to make this happen, see:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-864




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