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Or you can just tunnel through the ssh connection to your VM, I do this all the time to watch BBC. ssh -D 9050 [user]@[vm.ip] You now have a SOCKS proxy o
by davej 14y ago
Or you can just tunnel through the ssh connection to your VM, I do this all the time to watch BBC.
ssh -D 9050 [user]@[vm.ip]
You now have a SOCKS proxy on port 9050. Done!
- enimodas 14y agowhile you can easily set a SOCKS proxy for your browser, flash will still use your normal connection.
- seabee 14y agoWhich is more efficient if the sites don't care where the flash connection comes from (like, apparently, the BBC)
- irq 14y agoActually, the Flash BBC iPlayer will _not_ work if it connects from the United States. Additionally, I discovered that the BBC is using Akamai for streaming their live content, and Akamai's United States servers do not have the content. So even if you convince the BBC that you're in England, but talk to Akamai servers in the US, the content does not stream. Interestingly, BBC is using Limelight for pre-recorded content, and that content is apparently cached globally.
- seabee 14y agoI never tried the live streams - the time difference was inconvenient enough. Live content gets licensed differently to the catch-up content, which you can view without paying the license fee. Given catch-up is usually more restricted (some programmes unavailable for example) I imagine the only reason Limelight is globally accessible is because that's the default mode of operation and the iPlayer website is considered a sufficient region restriction mechanism.
- gsa 14y agoFlash with Firefox on Linux respects the SOCKS proxy setting.
- SG- 14y agoflash in OSX will work just fine through a SOCKS connection that you setup in systems prefs -> network. however it won't work with just an HTTP proxy.
- irq 14y agoThis is patently untrue, at least with the latest Flash in Mountain Lion. If you read the top paragraph of my post, you'd know this.
- SG- 14y agoi don't know what to tell you but i'm doing it right now using an ssh proxy with ssh -D in ML with the latest flash (also on a SL machine next to me) to a VPS i have in UK (i'm from Canada).
- irq 14y agoIndeed, Flash on OS X (at least, in Mountain Lion anyway) does not respect proxy settings. Additionally, the Flash BBC iPlayer will not work if it connects from the United States, despite what SG- has said below.
- DanielRibeiro 14y agoYou may also wish to add -C2qTnN[1]. At least -C2 for compression. [1] https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html
- irq 14y agoAs I stated at the top of my gist (did you read it?) and in other comments here, this simply does not work using the latest Flash in Mountain Lion. In this situation, Flash ignores proxy settings, and streaming does not work.