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Poor man's SSL VPN ssh -D 9050 yourbox.net and set your system's SOCKS proxy to localhost:9050
by sjs 16y ago
Poor man's SSL VPN
ssh -D 9050 yourbox.net
and set your system's SOCKS proxy to localhost:9050
- rb2k_ 16y agosadly Flash will try a direct socket connection first and just ignore your system's proxy settings...
- pmjordan 16y agoOn OSX this will work for some Flash video implementations, but not others. (BBC iPlayer website: yes, Desktop: no; other UK TV channels: no) You can use https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle to transparently proxy all TCP connections (to whitelisted or non-blacklisted IPs) though. OSX and Linux only, though.
- rb2k_ 16y agoThe BBC iPlayer website is pretty easy to fool. I just set up a squid proxy on a UK VPS and created a .pac file that redirects all bbc.co.uk requests. The final video stream won't be on that domain, so it will just go over the "normal" connection.
- pmjordan 16y agoCurious. I didn't realise the stream itself wasn't IP-restricted. This could solve issues with flaky VPS bandwidth.
- tomjen3 16y agoI didn't know that but it can't be that hard to fix -- all you would have to do would be to disallow outgoing port 80 connections with the firewall, right?
- sjs 16y agoIt works for me on some sites, on OS X in Canada. I watch Hulu and YouTube videos only available in the US with that method. YMMV.