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If so, what authentication method is possible?
davidparks21
Posted 2010-10-03T01:49:38.700
Reputation: 1 509
Can the browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) authenticate to a SOCKS5 proxy?
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The browsers don't do the authentication very well. I use tsocks or proxychains to do the proxy functions and authentication. Anything supported by the server is probably supported by proxychains - username/password certificates symmetric encryption...there are ways to do it all. I like to abstract it so the browser doesn't even know it's being proxied though.
RobotHumans
Posted 2010-10-03T01:49:38.700
Reputation: 5 758
Could you clarify "very well", is there any support for authentication in the common browsers? I didn't see any. – davidparks21 – 2010-10-03T03:35:48.713
I haven't played with it in a while...it seems like IE used to support some form of auth in proxy settings. it might have only been username password though. check here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41169/how-do-i-write-firefox-add-on-that-automatically-enters-proxy-passwords they note where to find ntlm auth configurations. IE does ntlm auth by default now. all in all the builtin auth is pretty automatic and pretty weak
– RobotHumans – 2010-10-03T04:18:15.537
Pretty sure all the browsers can do the auth. – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-10-03T03:37:28.170