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Questions tagged [privoxy]

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Adding security to privoxy

I have this little proxy that i run with privoxy on my server, basically to take advantage of my server's static IP to connect to my office's VPN. I'm using it on a, let's say, uncommon port without authentication, an open proxy. As my SysAdmin…
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Proxy dropping custom headers with https

Problem : With HTTPS requests my proxy is dropping custom headers from the response : HTTP request : $ curl -I -x 127.0.0.1:5566 http://www.google.fr HTTP/1.1 200 OK ... X-Servedby: 50001 => My custom header is added to the response full response :…
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Chain privoxy with another proxy to intercept SSL traffic

I'd like to setup Privoxy so that it can process HTTPS traffic in addition to HTTP, but it doesn't support SSL interception using my own self-signed certificate. I had the idea to have another proxy (call it "circular proxy") on my machine, via…
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Privoxy: How to do user-authentification?

Hy, I'm running Privoxy on my server and I only want to allow some users to use the proxy. I can't specify a IP-Address because they are dynamic. I also can't use ssh because those users use mobile devices where no ssh-client is available. I know…
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Privoxy rule to block Facebook spying

Recently, my server's Privoxy rules to block Facebook's spying have failed. How can I block current Facebook spying links? Since soon after the inception of Facebook's so-called “Open Graph” cross-site tracking widgets (those “Like” bugs on numerous…
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Redirect Privoxy traffic through OpenVpn

I am not sure if this is possible but I would like to route all traffic from FireFox through my OpenVpn connection with HideMyAss. Basically the setup I have is that I am running a connection using OpenVpn through HideMyAss, I have edited the ovpn…
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Redirect OpenVPN gateway traffic to Privoxy

I would like to redirect the traffic that goes through my OpenVPN gateway to Privoxy, like so: OpenVPN client->Internet->OpenVPN gateway->Privoxy->Internet->Webserver (and vice versa) So far I managed to get the OpenVPN gateway working fine.…
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Can not pass traffic from privoxy to ziproxy

To save up some bandwidth I decided to set up a privoxy and ziproxy bundle on my Debian Lenny VPS. The idea was to have privoxy only accessible from localhost, and put ziproxy behind it to compress the output and accept connections, because it…
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How can I make my proxy server use a proxy to access another proxy

I need to set up a HTTP proxy server (call it server A) for users to access Internet. For some reason, it needs to forward all the requests to another HTTP proxy server (call it server C). But C is not directly accessible by A, unless by using…
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Route and block HTTPS requests by domain with privoxy and havp

I'm configuring Privoxy and HAVP to run with OpenVPN and i'm stuck trying to block websites that use HTTPS (not all of them, some of them). I'm using the following in before.rules of UFW to redirect every request that comes in from the VPN users to…
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Nginx as https proxy

I need to setup nginx as https proxy, but this did not work: $ export https_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8081" $ curl https://example.com curl: (56) Received HTTP code 400 from proxy after CONNECT My nginx.conf: server { listen 8081; …
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redirecting iptables to privoxy does not work

I have set up a wireless access point on my Debian 8 laptop following this and this tutorial. When redirecting iptables to port 9040 it works but changing the port to 8118 which is the one privoxy listens to, it doesn't work and I can't access any…
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Limit Privoxy access with iptables to IP range

I would like to limit the access of the Privoxy port to a selected IP range. Background: I'm using an IPSec-VPN which users get 10.0.0.0/8 addresses assigned and only those users should be able to use the proxy service and "foreign users" are…
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Linux webfilter with LDAP SSO authentication

I'm looking for a self-made linux proxy/webfilter server and stumbled upon several products. (squidguard, dansguardian, ..) I found Privoxy the most appealing. Now I went searching on the internet for any help on configuring a squid proxy server…
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