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How to check if a Socks5 proxy works

Is there an easy way, preferably by using the Linux terminal, to check if a Socks5 proxy works?
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OpenVPN client as SOCKS 5 server?

Are there any Windows applications that can connect to a remote OpenVPN server then act like a SOCKS 5 server in the local environment? EDIT: which means a local server speaks VPN/OpenVPN protocol, bind to a port as socks proxy server extract and…
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What is the difference between shadowsocks and openvpn?

I currently configured openVPN and shadowsocks(based on socks5) on a server. I am confused what is the difference between two and when should I use one over other.
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OpenVPN, L2TP, or PPTP client that is a SOCKS5 server | linux

I need an OpenVPN, L2TP, or PPTP client for Linux - don't care which - that acts as a SOCKS5 server on the local machine. It should not set up tunnel interfaces or anything like that, it should just bind a specified port and talk SOCKS5 on that…
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Does Chromium not support SOCKS5H (with the "H" in the end)?

If I try to start Chromium or any Chromium-based browser with: [...] --proxy-server="socks5h://blablabla" Then it fails to load any page. However, it works if I do: [...] --proxy-server="socks5://blablabla" But SOCKS5H and SOCKS5 are slightly…
Marcio Kraimer
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How to configure Tor as service on windows?

I just want to have tor proxy server up and running all the time on my windows 10 PC. Tor browser doesn't fit my needs. So I'd like to be able to connect anything I want via socks5 proxy. It was so easy to set it up on mac. But on windows -- I'm…
Fake Fish
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How to use Firefox and other non-RFC1929 complaint programs with auth'ed SOCKS5? Local proxy chainer?

I own a SOCKS5 subscription which requires authentication. I want to use it with FoxyProxy and other programs which do not support auth'ed socks5 (just SOCKS5 with no auth). Note that you cannot enter a password in FF or other common browsers in…
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SOCKS5 Proxy Setup on Debian

Is there a package I can install in debian that will create a SOCKS5 proxy on some port? (preferably with authentication) I'd like to use this with uTorrent. If not, how do you setup a socks5 proxy on a server?
vonhogen
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How can I set up a local SOCKS5 proxy whose only purpose is to chain to an authenticated SOCKS5 proxy -- on OS-X?

For access to certain resources, I use an authenticated SOCKS5 proxy which runs on a remote server. For various reasons, I don't want to use that proxy system-wide, only with specific applications. Most of the applications I need to use the…
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What to do when the ISP seems to interrupt a SOCKS5 connection to a VPS?

I have a VPS and until now have been using a socks5 server on it. The problem is that recently my ISP (I live in Iran) has figured out some way to interrupt it and I'm receiving the "blocked page" for websites which are censored even through the…
Nig
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Use a Socks5 Proxy in Flash Player

Hello, I'm using PuTTY to create a Socks5 Proxy via SSH. It works great in firefox. But Adobe Flash Player does not seem to use it at all, how can I route my traffic to my server in Flash? I am using windows vista. The server is running Ubuntu…
Allan Kimmer Jensen
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In Google Chrome what does host-resolver-rules flag do when used with proxy-server?

I often needs to use a Socks 5 proxy for some websites. I cannot have a system wide proxy applied (which seems to be the method preferred by Chrome), so I have a shortcut which launches a chrome instance with the --proxy-server parameter. It's a…
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git: pushing through socks5 proxy with ProxyCommand+ncat fails

socks5 proxy runs as follows ss-local ... -l 1080 ... pushing w/ proxychains suceeds $ proxychains git push [proxychains] config file found: /etc/proxychains.conf [proxychains] preloading /usr/lib/libproxychains4.so [proxychains] DLL init:…
user744579
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FireFox 40: No Proxy(SOCKS5) Authorization Prompt

Mac OS X 10.10.5 Firefox 40.0.3 Does anyone know how to get FireFox to prompt for username/password when trying to set up a SOCKS5 proxy? I read that many people have issues with being asked to often to login but I can't get asked even once to…
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SOCKS OS X configuration

This is mostly a question about what effect does the following option have upon all applications that open TCP/UPD ports: If I set up a SOCKS proxy using System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> Proxies -> SOCKS Proxy to a remote server that…
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