On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:54 AM, Martin "eto" Misuth <et.c...@ethome.sk> wrote: > Heh proxies, > > yeah I spent too much time tweaking my polipo and privoxy setups. >
> >> This kind of situation usually means that I'm trying to use the wrong >> tool. As said in the first mail, I need to redirect some targets to a >> ssh tunnel, and let everything else go its way. Rather than using a >> proxy, the solution seems obvious: setup a different browser profile >> for the special targets and set the browser proxy for that profile to >> the ssh tunnel. > > Depends on your usecases and level of isolation you want to achieve. My needs are not security related. I use a ssh tunnel to a computer @work in order to access some pages behind paywalls. Other traffic goes through no proxy at all. Until recently, I used privoxy to sort it out. Problem is, privoxy seems to be slow. I'm tired of reading "waiting for proxy tunnel..." at the bottom of the page. Keeping a special profile for traffic directed to the ssh tunnel should do the job (not yet tested). > > > Finally, if you are bent on modifying your own HTTP traffic in-flight, > I strongly suggest you to look into privoxy. Maintaining this one will > consume most of your time. > > It's not lightweight, but it is supervision firendly, and comes with > incredibly nice magic bag of tricks. Yep. But see above. (Of course, I'm not sure the slowness is privoxy's fault...) Jorge
