You're confusing a SOCKS proxy with a HTTP proxy. They are not the same thing.
Sent form my iFoe. On Jul 18, 2012, at 16:07, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> wrote: > @Abel > > I've had a look at dsocks page, the "instructions" are kinda criptic but > just did something this way: > > # ssh -D 1080 user@sshdhost > # dsocks.sh lynx google.com > > it looks like working (yeaahhhhh!!! great piece of advice, mate!!!) but > also produces lotsa garbage on the screen bottom like: > > "lynx: (dsocks4) error reading reply: Connection refused" > (even if, eventually, I get connection and the desired page) > > Issuing the following: > # dsocks.sh lynx google.com 2>&1 /dev/null > > does not get rid of those messages. Maybe something wrong with v4/v5??? > > > @Alex > > So it looks I've been misled by the many people on internet who claim they > can use firefox establishing a ssh -D connection before. Actually I tried > to configure both firefox and netsurf but just had no results. > > So, can I use ssh to proxy my http without dsocks or not? > > > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:47 AM, <m...@extensibl.com> wrote: > >> Hi Paolo, >> >>> http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:12345/"; lynx google.com >> AFAIK, you should test SOCKS proxy, not HTTP. >> >> Regards, >> Alex
