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Snawoot / windscribe-proxy

Standalone client for proxies of Windscribe browser extension
MIT License
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Location selection issue #31

Closed Badawika closed 10 months ago

Badawika commented 10 months ago

Dear Snawoot,

First of all, I want to thank you a million for this application as I have used it to grab my windscribe proxy credentials to use them in other tunneling applications, i.e. Adguard, besides the normal running of the application. However, I am facing a problem with the location selection feature. I can not specify the accurate server to initiate a connection, for example, South Korea has 4 servers and the application just selects the endpoints on its preference. When I put the "location, server-URL, 443" it replies with "Server location error".

So, how can I manually select the server of my preference manually from a specific listed location correctly without getting this error?

Many thanks and waiting for your reply.

Snawoot commented 10 months ago

Hi!

Such feature for manual server selection is not implemented and not planned. However, you can try following workaround:

  1. Get list of proxies from windscribe with windscribe-proxy -list-proxies command.
  2. Run dumbproxy in upstream proxy forwarding mode: dumbproxy -proxy 'https://PROXY_LOGIN:PROXY_PASSWORD@SERVER_NAME:443'

where PROXY_LOGIN and PROXY_PASSWORD is respective credentials which can be found in the beginning of output of windscribe-proxy -list-proxies (not your windscribe login and password!). dumbproxy will be running on port 8080 and can be used same as windscribe-proxy.

Badawika commented 10 months ago

Hi,

I tried your solution and it works, thanks.

I was before using a similar way by using the "-Proxy" switch and adding manual configs of my preferred server to enforce windscribe-proxy to connect to this server location. I wonder if I use this way, does it mean that it is double tunneled and data will be transferred through two proxies (a small proxy chain), or the 1st proxy is used only for DNS resolving and handshaking processes?

Thanks in advance.

Snawoot commented 10 months ago

I wonder if I use this way, does it mean that it is double tunneled and data will be transferred through two proxies (a small proxy chain), or the 1st proxy is used only for DNS resolving and handshaking processes?

It will be a chain.