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Software Development, version 3.0

Using SSH for IPv6-enabled HTTP Proxying

My ISP has apparently made no progress whatsoever with IPv6, but I’ve got an IPv6 enabled VPS. SSH makes it trivial to use that VPS as a SOCKS5 proxy. Just do: ssh -D 8080 myvps.example.com Then set your browser’s SOCKS proxy to localhost:8080. In Firefox on Linux, this is Edit > Preferences > Advanced > [...]

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