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shevket

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Registered: 2017-07-19

Posts: 13

[solved] socks proxy with firefox 59 and ssh

Hi,

I used to have firefox connect through my server proxy in order to access the database web ui,
but it doesn't work anymore, probably since I upgraded to ff59.
Now it stays hanging and doesn't even alert when the server is refusing connection (as when closing the ssh tunnel)

Is this new in ff59? should I use a different browser or am I doing something wrong?

I used to simpy

ssh -D 8080 <server>

and configure FF with:
Connection configuration
    > Manual proxy configuration
          > socks host: `localhost` port:`8080`
                > socks v5

Many thanks

Last edited by shevket (2018-04-17 17:29:37)

shevket

Member

Registered: 2017-07-19

Posts: 13

Re: [solved] socks proxy with firefox 59 and ssh

Changing the socks host from`localhost` to `127.0.0.1` fixed it (loopback ip addr)