socks

I thought Socks Proxy Server can encrypt connections. Can it ? I tried Guess xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is my vps IP. ssh -f -N -D xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1080 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx And I can connect to the proxy from my pc ! :) But when i tried Wireshark to read datas , I got all datas !!! I tried to login in a...

Sometimes it might be usefull to have a small http proxy running for a second browser window. My favorit http proxy is "polipo". It has a small footprint of 2MB. Installation is quite easy: apt-get install polipo The config files are stored in /etc/polipo There are two config files that...