What's the advantage over dynamic port forwarding with SSH

justmao945 / mallory

HTTP/HTTPS proxy over SSH

MIT License

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Closed pludi closed 7 months ago

pludi commented 4 years ago

ssh -D$port -q -N -f $user@$host

This does basically the same, a SOCKS5 proxy that can be used with the browser (or really anything else that can speak SOCKS5).

The README doesn't really tell me the advantage of installing an additional piece of software.

justmao945 commented 4 years ago

this is a HTTP proxy

pludi commented 4 years ago

Ok, so if I want to proxy only HTTP/HTTPS: what's the advantage over using the SSH SOCKS5 proxy together with privoxy?

justmao945 commented 4 years ago

You can have your choice. I just want to use a pure HTTP proxy over SSH.