wget and socks

[0x0L]

For server hosts in a restricted network it would be nice to be able to ssh -R port but wget does not seem to support socks.

I tried to put somewhere in my path a shell script named wget - socksifying the original wget but it doesn't seem to get picked up

A preference to use curl or to specify the path to wget would be great

[caffeineaddiction]

imo there should be 2x client side config options.

• wget as it is currently setup
• ssh -R port is used to create dynamic socks proxy on host and reverse forwarded to server and server uses .js functionality to reproduce wget through the socks proxy

as a work around I have done the following:

Desktop ~/.ssh/config

...

Host *
  RemoteForward 54321

...

Remote: ~/bin/wget in which ~/bin is added to PATH via .bashrc

#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/opt/lib/tsocks/
export TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=$HOME/opt/tsocks/tsocks.conf
$HOME/bin/tsocks /usr/bin/wget $@

Remote: ~/opt/tsocks/tsocks.conf

server = 127.0.0.1
server_port = 54321
server_type = 5

note tsocks binary has been scp-ed to ~/bin/tsocks and ~/opt/tsocks/ has been created with libtsocks.so which is normally stored in /usr/lib64/libtsocks.so

This is a work around that allows me to have wget functionality with out messing with anything outside my profile to get it to work (eg: no root required ... even though I have it).

[caffeineaddiction]

see also: #161