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Is it possible to use nc as an HTTP proxy? I'm hoping to use nc on a VPS as an HTTP proxy and configure my browser to use the netcat server. Is this possible?
A few results for googleing "netcat http proxy" but not quite what I'm trying to do. These configurations seems to first accept netcat connections then proxy them out to another netcat listener. I need netcat to proxy out, similar to a SOCKS5 proxy.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4053876/using-netcat-nc-as-an-http-proxy-server-and-monitor
https://notes.tweakblogs.net/blog/7955/using-netcat-to-build-a-simple-tcp-proxy-in-linux.html
user908559
Posted 2018-05-25T03:15:24.110
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1What’s your reason for wanting to use netcat instead of say an open source HTTP proxy package? – Spiff – 2018-05-25T03:47:31.720
@Spiff just having some fun with netcat. also thought it might be simpler than using something fully featured like squid? do you know if what im trying to do is possible? – user908559 – 2018-05-25T04:00:10.207
Why would it be simpler? Dedicated proxy software exists for a reason — there are more things to do rather than just forwarding bytes over an interface. – slhck – 2018-05-25T04:26:46.907
This may be of use to you. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38783/how-to-make-netcat-use-an-existing-http-proxy
– Tim_Stewart – 2018-05-25T12:16:12.713And this: https://serverfault.com/questions/405822/how-do-i-use-socat-as-a-proxy-server
– Tim_Stewart – 2018-05-25T12:17:54.757