On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > Is there anything special in the way of configuration that > is required to enable a CentOS box to act as the point of > origin for an http request routed to it via a SOCKS ssh > link? > > I have researched this matter and the recommended > procedure is to open an SSH connection to the desired host > passing the requisite switches so: > > ssh -f -n -D <port> user at host.domain.tld > > And then reconfigure the desired applications to use the > localhost:<port> as the SOCKS proxy. Would this blog help? It's been working for me: http://blog.toracat.org/2008/09/socks-proxy-with-auto-config/ Akemi