Proxy option to browse PTs (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by BitterSweet@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Some PTs I’m on state it’s okay to re-direct my traffic through a server to browse the site. Issue is I don’t know what software to use to do this.

I want to make a flutter app to browse forums on PTs is really why I’m doing this. I hope to bring more life into the usually slow forums.

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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

That might be up to you, depends how much you need to do with the proxy part of that. With the seedbox provider I subscribe at they offer SSH capability so I can SSH into the seedbox. But if I want I can also create a proxy tunnel through the SSH connection & configure my web browser to use that local proxy port to tunnel through the seedbox's internet connection. It's not something I need to do often but is totally workable.

I do that with PuTTY, you can google around for that e.g. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-route-web-traffic-securely-without-a-vpn-using-a-socks-tunnel is a good overview.

That said I'm sure there's actual SOCKS proxy software you can install on the seedbox if you need more advanced features.

(don't know anything about app development / flutter so can't comment much on that)