For future reference, in case anyone is interested, switching out tsocks
for the more complicated dante-client makes svn http:// through socks 5
run perfectly.
On 19/07/13 09:56, Øyvind 'bolt' Hvidsten wrote:
> Testcase:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> apt-get install tsocks
>
> export TSOCKS_CONF_FILE="$HOME/.tsocks.conf"
>
> cat - >"$HOME/.tsocks.conf" <<EOF
> server = 127.0.0.1
> server_port = 1080
> server_type = 5
> local = 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0
> local = 172.16.0.0/255.240.0.0
> local = 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
> EOF
>
> ssh localhost -D 1080
>
> <start tcpdump on favorite network interface>
>
> tsocks svn co http://opkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On 19/07/13 09:44, Øyvind 'bolt' Hvidsten wrote:
>> I am trying to access several subversion repositories from behind a
>> socks proxy. Client machine runs Debian Linux. I use tsocks to stuff svn
>> into the proxy. I can do "tsocks svn co svn://blah.." just fine through
>> the proxy, but "tsocks svn co http://blah.." hangs for a long time and
>> then says "Could not read status line: connection was closed by server".
>>
>> I also tried from an unrestricted network, with ssh -D to localhost to
>> set up a quick socks proxy. Same error when using tsocks. Without the
>> proxy, the repo works fine.
>>
>> I can see in wireshark that with tsocks it asks for OPTIONS, as without
>> a proxy, gets the OPTIONS back, as without a proxy, and then it just
>> sits there, sending no further data until the error apprears and it
>> exits.
>>
>> In the restricted network, the SOCKS proxy is dante, but as I mentioned,
>> the same situation occurs with a simple ssh -D proxy.
>>
>> I've tested that in both cases, "tsocks wget ...." works perfectly.
>> Using http://opkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ for testing, but I've tried
>> several others too.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
Received on 2013-07-20 08:48:24 CEST