System-wide Transparent Proxy With URL Patterns

bahman · 2012-01-04 07:47:15

Internet censorship -where I live- has almost turned web unusable so I decided to setup a transparent proxy using Tor for my home network.
Since Tor is so slow -here- proxying all traffic through Tor would slow my connection to a crawl. Therefore I need a mechanism to selectively proxy the traffic.

I know a bit of 'iptables' and it looks to me like the solution to my problem. However there's a trick. As most of the websites I need to access through Tor (like Google+, Facebook and such) use several IP addresses for their entry points, it's almost impossible for me to add 'iptables' rules for all of those IP addresses. I need a mechanism to proxy the traffic based on URL patterns. For example I need to be able to proxy access to '*.facebook.com' through Tor.

So the question boils down to: how can I setup a system-wide transparent proxy using URL patterns?

Any idea/hint is much appreciated. TIA,

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Bahman

Last edited by bahman (2012-01-04 07:48:44)

/dev/zero · 2012-01-04 09:01:11

Hmm. Is it not sufficient to use two different browsers, one Tored, and one not? Eg use Firefox with Tor for all Facebook etc; and use Chromium for traffic you don't need torified.

Don't get yourself killed! Authoritarian regimes suck ass.

bahman · 2012-01-04 09:13:53

Applications that I use and need to be proxied are more than Firefox -which has excellent FoxyProxy add-on. That's the problem :-)

Stebalien · 2012-01-04 17:54:51

Use privoxy with socks5 forwarding:
http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#SOCKS
http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/acti … F-PATTERNS

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#1 2012-01-04 07:47:15

System-wide Transparent Proxy With URL Patterns

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