Socks5 auth with Firefox? about psocksd

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Socks5 proxy with authentication is now possible with the Proxy Toggle addon for Firefox 57+

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/proxy-toggle/

Easy config: Server, port, username, password - done!
Easy use: Toolbar button on/off

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Unfortunately Firefox does not support authentication when using a SOCKS server, see related ticket:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122752

I'm afraid there's not much we can do here, sorry.

As an alternative, you may set up an additional (anonymous) SOCKS server locally on the PC where Firefox is being used and then configure it to forward all connections using authentication to a remote SOCKS server. Would that help in your use case?

Thank your for the quick response. I stumbled upon this bug on my search on this topic. But i could not believe it...
It looks that only Opera and Arora support socks5 authentication.

I will try a local proxy server. Do you have any suggestion which one? And, maybe a running configuration?

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I will try a local proxy server. Do you have any suggestion which one? And, maybe a running configuration?

Sure, just use psocksd locally to forward it to a remote psocksd instance:

• Run your remote SOCKS server as usual:

  remote $ psocksd user:pass@*:9050

• Run SOCKS server on localhost and configure it to forward all requests to the remote SOCKS server:

  localhost $ psocksd 9050
  via * user:pass@remote:9050
  via list

  Admittedly, this configuration is largely undocumented at the moment :) Just type the commands as above in to psocksd window. You can also use the ping command to tests the connection to a given other SOCKS server like this:

  ping user:pass@remote:9050

• Configure firefox to use SOCKS on localhost:9050

Feel free to report back if this works for you. And we should probably include these instructions in the README sometime soon :)

Thanks a lot. I will try this next week. Now i am going into weekend :D

Ok. I installed php on my router and i am running psocksd php-fcgi psocksd.phar socks5://192.168.1.1:9050 on it. But it crashes when i try to connect:

root@OpenWrt:~# php-cgi psocksd.phar socks5://192.168.1.1:9050
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.5
Content-type: text/html

use direct connection to target
SOCKS proxy server listening on 192.168.1.1:9050
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in <b>/tmp/pharextract/psocksd/src/Clue/Psocksd/Option/Log.php</b> on line <b>12</b><br />
<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>:  date(): Timezone database is corrupt - this should *never* happen! in <b>/tmp/pharextract/psocksd/src/Clue/Psocksd/Option/Log.php</b> on line <b>12</b><br />

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psocksd is a CLI program (and not a CGI script) and as such should be run with your CLI php binary like this:

$ php psocksd.phar socks5://192.168.1.1:9050

The remaining errors look unrelated to the above. Apparently, your setup is somehow corrupted? I suppose fixing this is out of scope here. In the meantime, you can also run both psocksd instances on the same host by using different ports like this:

# firefox ---SOCKS4---> localhost:9050 ---SOCKS5+auth--> localhost:9051
$ php psocksd.phar user:pass@*:9051
$ php psocksd.phar *:9050
via user:pass@localhost:9051