How to direct bash network request through a socket5 proxy?

Question

I know how to use http_proxy to redirect http request, but how to redirect the data with a socket5 proxy such as a SSH tunnel?

What do you mean? Do you want to redirect the output of a command through the network? Or to redirect an HTTP request through an SSH tunnel? Or something else? Please clarify.

enzotib · Answer 1 · 2012-04-02 07:00:21Z

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Look at the tsocks application, it is able to transparently redirect every network request of a controlled application through a given socks proxy.

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pradeepchhetri · Answer 2 · 2012-04-02 04:42:10Z

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For bash network request to redirect through socket5 proxy, you have to export http_proxy variable:

$ export http_proxy=socks5://username:passwd@socks5_proxy_ip:port

answered Apr 2 '12 at 4:42

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This is unrelated to bash, it is up the the started application if to use or not the value of that variable. – enzotib Apr 2 '12 at 6:57

I encourted the Unsupported scheme socks5'` error. – yangchenyun Apr 3 '12 at 5:57

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