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A method of connecting to the internet through an intermediary (a proxy server) which handles connections and redirects them.

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Having issues creating a SOCKS5 Proxy. Can not Tunnel device

I have a desktop machine in my home which ive turned into a Ubuntu (desktop 14 LTS) SSH server using OPENssh. I can SSH into my machine locally using public key authentication (&Putty from my win8....
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sudo apt-get trying to connect through old proxy

I previously had a proxy set-up when visiting somewhere for work, to use the internet there. I have since returned, and I thought got rid of the proxy. However today when I try to run sudo apt-get ...
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Fast change of my ip/proxy in terminal for one command

I need to change my IP for one command in bash command line, so I want use proxy (123.123.123.123:80 format), how can I do it? For example if I write: curl ifconfig.me I get my original IP, so how I ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 APT Proxy?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a password-protected proxy network. My web browser is configured and works, but I cannot install packages from apt or similar. Is there a way to configure apt to use my proxy?...
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How to Install/Configure/Manage Server/ProxyServer for my small office to control everything ?? (Ubuntu 14.04)

I am totally newbie to Servers. I'm running a small web based office with having 25 employees. It's been 3 months & i'm watching that my team is sucking up all my internet data in downloading,...
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how to insall and configure privoxy in ubuntu 14.04?

which is the best way to install configure privoxy in ubuntu 14.04 as adblock plus is really heavy and makes pages like facebook to be very slow even on a computer with good configuration. please help ...
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curl command fails with time out when downloading meteor

I'm having the same issue described here: curl command fails with a timeout The solution says to define the https proxy variable with all upper case letters. This is what I've tried: me@medev:~$ ...
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How to (re)configure my internet connection? (DNS resolving failed)

A couple of days ago I was working with ipython notebook and it opens me a page in my web browser (Google Chrome) and I was able to work with the notebook (zero problems with my internet). Then, I ...
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How can I tease Sonicwall?

In my college, I can't use the web, because they use Sonicwall network firewalls How can I tease it? For I use all websites in my college? Please see the result when I access a website blocked ...
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Error installing the noobslab Dark Theme in Ubuntu 14.04

I wanna install the noobslab Dark Theme in Ubuntu 14.04. I'm following the steps defined in the site http://www.noobslab.com/2014/05/delorean-dark-theme-updated-install-in.html but when I try the ...
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How to automatically forward all network connections through a proxy?

I would like to forward all network connections of all applications through a proxy, even though the applications themselves may not have proxy support. Is such a thing possible in desktop Ubuntu?
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Cannot unset http_proxy

I have Xubuntu and I can't unset the http_proxy variable. And I want to unset it because i can't downloading now. I try to do unset http_proxy or export http_proxy=
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How to setup Squid Proxy Server on ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

I had tried using the Ubuntu wiki guidelines to set it up on test server, and it worked. Though I would appreciate if anyone can provide me with few other links as this time I am going to install it ...
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nc: Proxy error: "HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden"

I am using Ubuntu 13.10 x86_64. I am not able to ssh over proxy to remote host. When I issued: ssh -vl hackep6t 162.251.80.25 I got this output: OpenSSH_6.2p2 Ubuntu-6ubuntu0.1, OpenSSL 1.0....
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How to Remove Authenticated Proxy from Ubuntu 12.04

I used to access my internet from an authenticated proxy ethernet. Hence I had created a apt.conf file under etc/apt. But now I want to access my internet without the proxy(a proxy free internet) so I ...
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squid3 stop/waiting, is this a bug?

After I installed the squid using apt-get, the service was running, but then when I did make changes on the conf file, the service just hang squid3 stop/waiting I cannot start it.
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How to set proxy settings to view YouTube from China in Ubuntu?

I am new for Ubuntu OS, now I am in China. I cannot open YouTube so I want to know which proxy setting will allow to view YouTube videos?
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Proxy Internet problem on Ubuntu?

We have proxy Internet at college and I can not access it on Ubuntu. It works on browsers but it doesn't work for any other application like the Ubuntu software center. I tried to apply the network ...
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How can I set a persistant proxy server setting for the guest account?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 at work and we have a proxy server. I would like to allow guests to use my computer on the guest account, but I cannot get the proxy settings to stay. Is there a way to set ...
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How to use wget behind a TMG proxy?

I need to issue a HTTP request from the command line, but am behind a Forefront TMG Proxy. The environment variable http_proxy doesn't work. I still get the error: ERROR 407: Proxy Authentication ...
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How to have a server the makes a clients update and download software offline?

I guess I have to make a proxy server to be able the clients update and download offline. But how? Any ideas.
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Problem with installing dropbox

I am trying to install "Dropbox" on my laptop and it keeps throwing the following error at me all the time. laptop@laptop:~$ dropbox start -i Starting Dropbox... Dropbox is the easiest way to share ...
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git get ubuntu kernel source through http proxy

I try to run below command to get kernel source code in ubuntu 12.04. git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-precise.git As my machine is in a private network, I need setup a http proxy ...
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problem with installing Tor on ubuntu 12.04

I tried to install tor in terminal by: sudo apt-get install tor and this is the output: > Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done tor is ...
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Using Apache2 proxy_html module on Ubuntu 12.04

I am trying to set up a reverse proxy to give access to several internal web servers from the internet. I have configured some name based virtual hosts with reverse proxy (I enabled proxy and ...
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Installing any plugin inEclipse sticks on pending and doesn't install

I am facing a problem with installing plugins in Eclipse on Ubuntu 12.04. I am using the "Install New Software" feature under the help menu in Eclipse. No matter what update site I provide in the "...
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Not able to set up Gwibber Online accounts

I first tried Ubuntu 12.10 from the Live USB and then eith Virtual Box. In both cases I was able to connect to my google Account from Gwibber. But now I have done a clean install, but am not able to ...
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"Vidalia detected that the Tor software exited unexpectedly."

I can start and kill tor via command line, but I want to control it with Vidalia. The browser bundle works, but I'd rather not use it. This is the message log in vidalia: Sep 25 19:29:13.696 [Notice] ...
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Unable to install wubi on windows 7 home premium 64bit [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Wubi “could not retrieve the required disk image” When I try to install wubi in a partition made on my hard disk I get a error message saying "could not retrive ...
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vidalia fails to anonymize despite showing green onion

Here's what I have done: sudo apt-get install vidalia and it has been installed after that I've set the proxy settings in network to localhost:8118 and applied it system wide; however, when I want ...
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Ubuntu browsers trying to make me connect via a proxy that isn't available, how do I stop it wanting to connect to it?

I recently updated my computer and now it wont' let me go online. It keeps coming up with the error message; Cannot connect to proxy (slb-webcache.hull.ac.uk). How do I get rid of it's proxy ...
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How to make a Squid Proxy server?

I want to set up squid proxy server for monitoring user activity in a network and Internet Web URL filtering for user. I also want to configure the user login, user log, user access group, and block ...
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Is there a way to set/change proxy in synaptic package manager from terminal?

I want to change proxy settings of Synaptic package manager from terminal. I see that editing /etc/apt/apt.conf file does not work, i.e., even if I change proxy settings here, or anywhere, Synaptic ...
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configuring and authenticating proxy on ubuntu 12.04 terminal

I am very new to ubuntu, I decided to try it out two days ago. I am using proxy server [41.74.91.139 with user name and password]. I cant access any on-line resources both with the terminal, ...
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Weird networking issue under 12.04

I am having problems with networking in the command line, specifically with the gem installer (I had similar issues yesterday but can't remember exactly what with). So, I am getting: pete@pete-...
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Dynamic Proxy with password

I need to setup a proxy on my localbox to redirect some requests to another network. I am doing it in the following way ssh -f -N -D 0.0.0.0:22022 some-external-host In this case every time i try ...
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Can't run Tor from terminal

So... I can't run Tor from my terminal. I have tried many different things, but I couldn't make it run. Once, it didn't stop to run when I wanted to. At my other attempt I also ended up failing ...
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Can connect to internet only via proxy

After attempting to use a VPN client (Astrill), I can no longer access the internet through my Ubuntu installation. The VPN was setup as piece of software, not something to be used through Ubuntu ...
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How to get Opera work correctly with Privoxy?

I use Privoxy and recently switched back to Opera as browser. Anything is fine, but one thing is annoying: Everytime I start the computer I have to restart privoxy (sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart) ...
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LXD UI Not Recognizing Certificates over NGINX Proxy Manager

I am hosting an LXD instance with the UI enabled. I have passed through the UI via NGINX proxy manager and Cloudflare is proxying the connection with DNS from a subdomain. On my local network, I can ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Kubernetes setup - failed to pull image

I'm trying to install a Kubernetes test in my lab environment. I'm behind a proxy which is configured for curl, apt and wget But there is a special certificate used from forcepoint. All ssl ...
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Not loading module "atk-bridge": The functionality is provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it

I keep getting this message when running proxychains and my proxies arent even connected when the browser launches. I am using Ubuntu 22.04. The command below did not work and I have updated, there ...
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how to set socks proxy with username and password in the proxy setting

i have a proxy server exampleuser:examplepassword@serverip:serverport and i want to use it with the network proxy server in setting>network>proxy but using exampleuser:examplepassword@serverip ...
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Usable squid version for Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS

I use Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS with latest patch level. The server ist used as a squid - proxy server. Squid version is 5.2-1ubuntu4.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squid/5.2-1ubuntu4.3 Even ...
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Livepatch Will Not Enable for Ubuntu 18.04 with "Could not retreive client information" error

I have installed and set up Ubuntu Pro on my primary server and my backup server. However, I cannot get livepatch to enable on the backup server. I get the following error: # sudo pro enable livepatch ...
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WWW is getting 404 but without it works fine for most of the virtual host domains, upstream redirecting but how to change upstream?

Aloha, I have: Ubuntu 20.04 running on a Akamai(was Linode) shared processors with the latest Apache2 server and 8 or so different domains, for the majority they work correctly. But the main one and ...
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Squid Proxy - Error 407 - Simple Authentication NCSA

when running squid (4.10, installed from apt or 5.6 from docker ubuntu/squid:latest) and adding a simple user authentication, all requests are dropped by squid with HTTP 407. The purpose is to have a ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 and Firefox don't work with proxychains

I want to use Firefox and remmina via proxychains. I have installed the app with sudo apt get proxychains4 When I enter proxychains firefox or proxychains4 firefox Firefox uses the IP from the system ...
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Use privoxy to forward traffic based on IP similar to Proxifier

My colleague shared his configuration. He is using a Mac. He is connected to a VPN using "open-vpn". Then he uses Proxifier to forward traffic to proxy.test.cloud:2128 as seen in the image ...
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Update Squid on Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS

I installed squid (v. 5.2) on a fresh Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS, but we see a lot of aborted downloads together with error messages in in squids log files. The info from squid mailing list was: "......
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