Proxy Questions

themistry · 31 Jul 2012 at 07:57

Hi guys,

Some interesting proxy questions I'm hoping someone can help me with.

I live in Canada but want access to bbc iPlayer. I have setup a proxy at my parents home in the uk. If I apply this in Firefox/Ie etc, boom I get iPlayer access.

Id like to go one better. In my local network (in Canada), I'd like all machines and applications (not just a web browser) to use the uk proxy when hitting certain urls. Do I need to setup a local proxy todo this? Can anyone provide some hints or guidance?

Would really appreciate it!

Many thanks
TM

PistolPete · 31 Jul 2012 at 15:22

If you are looking to proxy anything other than HTTP then you need a SOCKS proxy and finding apps that support SOCKS proxies is quite hard these days.

Sounds like you'd be better off with a UK VPN - Never used one so someone else will have to recommend one for you.

themistry · 1 Aug 2012 at 03:10

Hey,

thanks for the reply. I only need to proxy http traffic.

Basically my main issue is my Samsung TV. I have the iPlayer app on it, but cannot manually set a proxy, therefore i need another way of doing it.

Any ideas?

TM

PistolPete · 1 Aug 2012 at 10:30

Ah sorry, you said all machines and applications so I misunderstood.

You could probably setup a local proxy and include URL matching. If it matches the URL string then it could be passed to another upstream proxy and if it doesn't match then it goes direct.

I know the idea and theory behind it but never actually done it myself.

michellez · 1 Aug 2012 at 13:39

I do not think this is going to be overly do-able in a home situation but look up WCCP and Cisco. Basically it redirects traffic at firewall level to a proxy. Nothing needs setting on the machines/devices, they are totally unaware. I use it at work with a Cisco ASA firewall and Squid on a linux box. I don't know if there is a way of doing it with out expensive Cisco kit though!