SOCKS - SOCKS Proxy for iPhone

Copyright (C) 2009 Ehud Ben-Reuven

udi@benreuven.com

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2.

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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

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This is an iPhone App that is a SOCS Proxy. It allows you to connect your laptop to the Internet through the iPhone's 3G/Edge connection (tethering.) If you want to install the application on your iPhone you will have to build and install the App from the the supplied code.

• Pay Apple for iPhone development program
• get a development certificat from Apple's developers portal
• download the entire source code to a Mac
• double click SOCKS.xcodeproj
• in the left panel select Targers and then select SOCKS
• press the "i" Info button on the top
• select Properties tab
• In the Identifier field change "symfi" to your company name
• connect an iPhone using a cable
• click Build and Debug

In order for this to work you need to follow few steps Instructions for Mac:

• On your laptop start an add-hoc Wi-Fi network:
  • System Preferences->Network
  • select AirPort
  • click on Network Name and select Create Network
  • in Name enter "mywifi", press OK, press Apply
• Connect you iPhone to the add-hoc wifi network:
  • Settings->Wi-Fi
  • select "mywifi"
• Run this SOCKS App on your iPhone
• In the SOCS Proxy tab press Start
• configure your laptop to use SOCKS:
  • System Preferences->Network->Advanced...->Proxies
  • select SOCKS proxy
  • in the SOCKS Proxy Server field enter the address and port that appear on your iPhone screen
  • press OK
  • press Apply