ssh proxy connection used to work with Firefox, now doesn't

[Darren Tucker]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 19:41, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 07:13:37PM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 18:54, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > > I used to use the following ssh command to set up a socks5 proxy to
> > > use with Firefox:-
> > >
> > >     ssh -fC2qTnN -D 8080 chris at cheddar.halon.org.uk
> >
> > 8080 is more often used for http proxies whereas 1080 is the
> > registered port for SOCKS.  Which are you using?
> >
> Well the command above is exactly what I have in my script for doing
> this, so I was using 8080.  Firefox allows you to specify what port to
> use so I just set 8080 there too.  I can certainly try 1080 instead.

I meant which *proxy protocol* are you using?  Firefox supports two:
HTTP (commonly port 3128 or 8080, with GET and CONNECT variants for
HTTP and HTTPS respectively) and SOCKS (commonly port 1080).   ssh -D
offers only SOCKS.

Firefox has multiple places to configure proxies: several for HTTP
proxies (http, https, and ftp) plus one for SOCKS.  If you point a
HTTP-style proxy setting at a SOCKS proxy server like ssh -D then it's
not going to work.  You should only have the SOCKS proxy setting
populated.



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