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KomodoDave

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 162

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Privoxy query

I'd like to run rdesktop via Privoxy, for convoluted reasons. I've no idea how to go about this, though

The 'How to Torify things in Linux' link in the Tor documentation suggests the following code to utilise Privoxy, since many apps support http proxy settings:

http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/
HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy
export http_proxy HTTP_PROXY

This doesn't affect rdesktop though, since it uses odd ports, and instead means that things like pacman, which I have no problem using my non-proxy connection for, go at a snail's pace through the proxy.

Does anyone know of a way that I can make rdesktop use source port 8118, ie. that of Privoxy? I've read that rdesktop uses port 3389 by default, when connecting to Windows machines, at least. Can I map 3389 on my machine to point to 8118, and achieve the effect I want that way?

Many thanks.

- Dave

Last edited by KomodoDave (2007-08-28 00:43:45)

xyn

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From: Las Vegas

Registered: 2007-08-28

Posts: 7

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Re: Privoxy query

Hi,

Afaik, rdesktop doesnt support proxies on its own. You might, however, be able to use tsocks or "torify" (i think thats the name) to tunnel the protocol using tor. Also, if you check here http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnio … HOWTO/Misc  under "Any TCP-based protocol" it mentions tcppm which is part of the 3proxy package that may help too. Although, I have to mention that RDP over tor would be really, really slow, and probably unusuable for any practical applications .

KomodoDave

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 162

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Re: Privoxy query

Hi,

Afaik, rdesktop doesnt support proxies on its own. You might, however, be able to use tsocks or "torify" (i think thats the name) to tunnel the protocol using tor. Also, if you check here http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnio … HOWTO/Misc  under "Any TCP-based protocol" it mentions tcppm which is part of the 3proxy package that may help too. Although, I have to mention that RDP over tor would be really, really slow, and probably unusuable for any practical applications .

Yes, I understand the speed limitations, it's a problem..

Thanks a lot for your informative reply, xyn, I really appreciate it. I'll read up the wiki entry you linked and see what I can come up with.. if anything usable emerges, I'll post here (EDIT: or rather, on the wiki) so others can see how it's done.

Cheers

- Dave

Last edited by KomodoDave (2007-08-29 18:08:05)