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█▌ - HOW TO USE A PROXY - █▌
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█ If you want to setup your own 'proxy server' see tutorials DeleGate, ▐▌
█ SOHT, or HTTP-Tunnel. Or you could simply use 'Socks5 via SSH' which I'll ▐▌
█ explain below. This tut is mainly how to use one - client side. ▐▌
█ For example you have purchased a proxy/socks5, or a friend gave you one ▐▌
█ to use and you don't know how to use it. In most types this should work. ▐▌
█ For example you are given a HTTP Proxy or Socks5: ▐▌
█ Server: 74.125.45.100 ▐▌
█ Port: 2121 ▐▌
█ Username: mewbie ▐▌
█ Password: MyPassword ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ ENTER PROXY DIRECTLY INTO A PROGRAM: ▐▌
█ ```````````````````````````````````` ▐▌
█ HTTP Proxy: ▐▌
█ It could be as simple as entering that information directly into your ▐▌
█ program. For instance: ▐▌
█ In IE: Tools/Internet Options/Connections/Lan settings/check 'use a proxy ▐▌
█ server for lan..../Advanced enter under HTTP 74.125.45.100 Port: 2121 ▐▌
█ If it's a Socks enter under Socks ▐▌
█ First time you go to a web page you'll be prompted once for the above ▐▌
█ Username and Password. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ In FireFox: Tools/Options/Advanced/Network/Settings/ Select 'Manual proxy ▐▌
█ configuration'. Enter your Proxy IP and port under HTTP Host. OK/OK. ▐▌
█ If it's a Socks enter under SOCKS Host. ▐▌
█ First time you go to a web page you'll be prompted once for the above ▐▌
█ Username and Password. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Socks5 Proxy: ▐▌
█ In FTPRush: Tools/Options/Connection/Proxy Server/Add/ Enter your ▐▌
█ settings/ select Proxy Type Socks5 (or whatever type you are using). ▐▌
█ Then check 'Use passive mode when using proxy' ▐▌
█ Then drop down menu Current Proxy settings select it /Apply/OK ▐▌
█ Or to use it for only a certain site: ▐▌
█ Tools/Site Manager/Select your site/Connection/ Proxy Server/ ▐▌
█ Select 'Use custom proxy server'. Drop down menu select your new proxy. ▐▌
█ Select 'Apply proxy on Data channel ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Socks5 Proxy for Telnet: ▐▌
█ Vandyke's SecureCRT: Options/Global Options/Terminal/Firewall/Add/ ▐▌
█ Fill in the information: ▐▌
█ Name anything you like ▐▌
█ Type: Socks version5 (username/password) ▐▌
█ Host name: IP of proxy ▐▌
█ Port: Port of proxy ▐▌
█ username & password: the one set on the proxy ▐▌
█ Click OK/OK ▐▌
█ Then go to your server list/right click on the server you want to use the ▐▌
█ proxy on/ Properties/Connection/Telnet/Firewall: drop down list/ Select ▐▌
█ your Proxy you just added. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ SOCKS5 VIA SSH: ▐▌
█ ``````````````` ▐▌
█ If you are the host you don't need to set up anything! :) Follow the ▐▌
█ same method below to use your box as a Socks5 server; your Host would be ▐▌
█ your IP, port would be what you have SSH setup on. If you want to share ▐▌
█ this with other users just make an account for them: adduser. Once you ▐▌
█ are connected, you'll be prompted for your normal username and password. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ SOCKS5 PORT FORWARDING: ▐▌
█ ``````````````````````` ▐▌
█ Socks can also be setup like this: ▐▌
█ Download PuTTy from HERE (freeware, tiny, portable). ▐▌
█ You can get a free little tool to check if your ports are open / forwarded ▐▌
█ correctly 'PFPortChecker' by portforward.com HERE (not required). ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ SETTINGS: ▐▌
█ In Putty: Open Putty, enter into 'Host Name (or IP address)' your host / ▐▌
█ proxy's IP (74.125.45.100), 'Port' enter port from host (your host might ▐▌
█ give you a range to choose from like: 21,22,23,80,443). ▐▌
█ Connection type: select 'SSH'. Saved Sessions enter any name you like. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Left pane - Connection/SSH select 'Don't start a shell or command at all' ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Connection/SSH/Tunnels select 'Dynamic' then in 'Source port' enter your ▐▌
█ source port, for ex: 8282 ('Source port' is the port it will listen on ▐▌
█ from your box, so pick any port that is open). Then click Add. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Session/ Click the 'Save' button. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ If you want to use VanDyke's SecureCRT, it's really too heavy of an app to ▐▌
█ use for this tiny job, here are the settings: ▐▌
█ Connect button/ New Session button (3rd from left) / Protocol select SSH2/ ▐▌
█ Fill in information for Server/ Name anything/ Finish. Then right click on ▐▌
█ your new session under Session, select Properties/Connections/Port ▐▌
█ Forwarding/ Select 'Do not request a shell'. Click Add button, enter your ▐▌
█ source/listening port under 'Remote': 8282, select 'Dynamic forwarding ▐▌
█ using SOCKS4 or 5', click OK. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ CONNECT TO PROXY: ▐▌
█ Double click on your new Saved Sessions to connect. ▐▌
█ Click Yes to accept. Type in your username, hit enter key and then type in ▐▌
█ your password (you can't see it). If all went well nothing else will ▐▌
█ happen in the putty window. ▐▌
█ You must leave this running to access tunnel and use the proxy for ▐▌
█ software like mIRC, IE, FTP, etc. - just minimize it. If the connection to ▐▌
█ the server is lost close that window, open putty again, and reconnect as ▐▌
█ above. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ TO USE PROXY IN APPLICATIONS: ▐▌
█ MIRC: Tools/Options/Connect/Firewall/Firewall support: Both / ▐▌
█ Protocol: Socks5 /Hostname: 127.0.0.1 (or: localhost)/ Port: 8282 (Your ▐▌
█ 'Source port') ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ FIREFOX: Tools/Options/Advanced/Network/Settings/check "Manual proxy ▐▌
█ configuration' enter under SOCKS Host: 127.0.0.1 Port: 8282 ▐▌
█ check Socks 5, then click OK, OK. ▐▌
█ Not needed but for a little extra security, type into browser: ▐▌
█ about:config ▐▌
█ scroll down to or enter into filter window to find it: ▐▌
█ network.proxy.socks_remote_dns ▐▌
█ Double click it to set it to true. Then all DNS requests happen at the ▐▌
█ SSH side leaving your ISP in the dark as to what you're doing on the net. ▐▌
█ Thank you to st*n*x for that extra tip :) ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ IE: Tools/Internet Options/Connections/Lan settings/check 'use a proxy ▐▌
█ server for lan..../Advanced enter under Socks 127.0.0.1 Port: 8282 ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Can test your browser HERE at whatismyipaddress.com ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ E-MAIL: ▐▌
█ Using gxx.net for example: ▐▌
█ The gxx pop server is pop.gxx.net:110 and the smtp is mail.gxx.net:465 ▐▌
█ Pick 2 open ports and point your e-mail client to those. ▐▌
█ Example: POP 127.0.0.1:8383 and SMTP 127.0.0.1:8484 ▐▌
█ Then you configure your SSH client to do port forwarding as follows: ▐▌
█ map 127.0.0.1:8383 to pop.gxx.net:110 ▐▌
█ map 127.0.0.1:8484 to mail.gxx.net:465 ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ USED AS A HTTP TUNNEL: ▐▌
█ `````````````````````` ▐▌
█ This will require that your host has setup 'httptunnel' for you or it ▐▌
█ won't work as below. ▐▌
█ For this example I'm going to use HTC (HTTPtunnel client) HTC's site is ▐▌
█ HERE. Huge Thank You to xzibition.com HERE for setting it up for testing :)▐▌
█ Btw if you're in need of a good shell host, they are it. ▐▌
█ Author's blog How to HERE, FAQ, and a How To. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ HTC SETTINGS: ▐▌
█ 1. Check their site for the latest version if your host didn't give you. ▐▌
█ Download httptunnel-3.3w32r2.zip HERE. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ 2. Unzip that to: C:\htc ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ 3. Find an open port that you know you can use 'source port/listening ▐▌
█ port', or forward one in your router. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ 4. Open a Window's Prompt: Start/Run/ type in: cmd ▐▌
█ then select OK ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ 5. Type into the window then hit your enter key: ▐▌
█ C:\htc\htc.exe HostIP:HostPort -F another.source.port ▐▌
█ For example: C:\htc\htc.exe 74.125.45.100:80 -F 8383 ▐▌
█ If you have to connect to a corporate proxy first before being allowed out ▐▌
█ then do this for example: ▐▌
█ C:\htc\htc.exe -P HttpProxy:3128 74.125.45.100:80 -F 8383 ▐▌
█ If your proxy requires authentication then for example: ▐▌
█ C:\htc\htc.exe -P HttpProxy:3128 -A USER:PASSWORD 74.125.45.100:80 -F 8383 ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ 6. Leave that window open, just minimize it. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ PUTTY SETTINGS FOR USE WITH HTC: ▐▌
█ 1. Do the same settings as above for Putty 'except' for "Session/ enter ▐▌
█ proxy's IP into the hostname & port" you'll enter: ▐▌
█ 127.0.0.1 (or: localhost) port 8383 (your other source port). ▐▌
█ 2. Connect to your proxy, leave window open, just minimize it. (So now you ▐▌
█ will have HTC and PuTTy running) ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ TO USE PROXY IN APPLICATIONS: ▐▌
█ Follow the same directions as above under 'TO USE PROXY IN APPLICATIONS'. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ SUMMARY OF PORTS USED IN THE EXAMPLES ABOVE: ▐▌
█ ```````````````````````````````````````````` ▐▌
█ Your own source port in your applications (IE, mIRC, etc): 8282 ▐▌
█ Your own same source port (Dynamic) in PuTTy that will listen for your applications: 8282
█ Your own source port Putty will connect to HTC: 8383 ▐▌
█ Your own same source port HTC is listening on for PuTTy: 8383 ▐▌
█ Your Host/Server port that HTC will send off your connections: 80 ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ So your the connections will go something like this: ▐▌
█ Applications connect to your own box (localhost) on port 8282, PuTTy hears ▐▌
█ them (listening/source port 8282) and sends that connection off / forwards ▐▌
█ it to port 8383, HTC hears them and forwards it to the Server (finally out ▐▌
█ of your box) on Port 80, which all firewalls allow. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ HTC VARIABLES: ▐▌
█ -A, --proxy-authorization USER:PASSWORD proxy authorization ▐▌
█ -z, --proxy-authorization-file FILE proxy authorization file ▐▌
█ -B, --proxy-buffer-size BYTES assume a proxy buffer size of BYTES bytes ▐▌
█ (k, M, and G postfixes recognized) ▐▌
█ -c, --content-length BYTES use HTTP PUT requests of BYTES size ▐▌
█ (k, M, and G postfixes recognized) ▐▌
█ -d, --device DEVICE use DEVICE for input and output ▐▌
█ -F, --forward-port PORT use TCP port PORT for input and output ▐▌
█ -h, --help display this help and exit ▐▌
█ -k, --keep-alive SECONDS send keepalive bytes every SECONDS seconds ▐▌
█ (default is 5) ▐▌
█ -M, --max-connection-age SEC maximum time a connection will stay ▐▌
█ open is SEC seconds (default is 300) ▐▌
█ -P, --proxy HOSTNAME[:PORT] use a HTTP proxy (default port is 8080) ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ HTC NOTES: ▐▌
█ 1. Make sure all the ports that you select are open for you to use or this ▐▌
█ won't work. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ 2. Only one IP / one person may use this at the same time per port. It's ▐▌
█ the software limitation, not your host. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ 3. It will log to Window's application log. To view those logs: ▐▌
█ Start/Control Panel/ double click on 'Administrative Tools' / double click ▐▌
█ on 'Event Viewer' / double click on 'Application' / double click on an ▐▌
█ entry to view information about it. Easy way to find entries for HTC is to ▐▌
█ click the column's tab 'Source' which will then sort all alphabetically. ▐▌
█ It will be under htc. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ 4. To close HTC completely you need to use the Task Manager: Ctrl+Alt+Del ▐▌
█ keys, Processes tab, find htc.exe, select it, hit the 'End Process' button.▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ 5. If when you try to connect with putty and it immediately prompts you ▐▌
█ with: "Server unexpectedly closed network connection" and then probably ▐▌
█ kills the running hts.exe - most likely the cmd you are entering is ▐▌
█ incorrect and or your ports aren't open. Most cases this has nothing to do ▐▌
█ with your host. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ 6. In the enclosed README it suggests to read an article about firewall ▐▌
█ piercing; that document can now be found HERE. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ //---------------------------------------------------------------------- ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ If you find mistakes, have suggestions, and or questions please post at ▐▌
█ mewbies forum HERE - thank you. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Last update on 18 Aug '09 ▐▌
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