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[Chris Croome <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

On Wed 06-May-2015 at 01:49:51PM +0200, Roberto Resoli wrote:
> 
> Do you really want to set a socks proxy? 

Yes.

> Anyway, you have not set any proxy hostname.

How does one do that and what is the difference between a host and a
hostname in this context?

I'm used to using a socks proxy with Firefox and you just need to set 3
variables in about:config:

  network.proxy.socks           localhost
  network.proxy.socks_port      8080    
  network.proxy.type            1

On Wed 06-May-2015 at 02:04:49PM +0200, Roberto Resoli wrote:
> 
> But have you already installed a socks proxy on the phone? 

Yes, a ssh tunnel acts as a socks proxy.

> What is the intended goal? 

Sending web traffic through the ssh tunnel.

Setting these variables as the phablet user on the command line doesn't
appear to work:

  gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'manual'
  gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host 'localhost'
  gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port '8080'
  gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.system.proxy
  gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.system.proxy | grep 'socks\|mode'
    org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'none'
    org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host ''
    org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port 0

All the best

Chris

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