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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    SOCKS and Konqueror "micro-HOWTO"
From:       David Sweet <dsweet () andamooka ! org>
Date:       2001-04-17 17:31:03
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This got bounced from the kde and kde-user lists, so I'll post it here.  
Could someone with posting rights please forward to kde-user?



>
>I've seen a lot questions about using Konqueror via a SOCKS proxy (a common
>proxy system that keeps users somewhat safe behind a firewall).
>
>Here's how I did it on a Mandrake 7.2 system.
>	1) Install runsocks  (I used
>ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/falsehope/home/gomez/socks5/runsocks-1.0r11-3.i386.r
>pm but you might need a different version for your system) and follow the
> instructions to configure it.  For example, my /etc/libsocks5.conf file
> reads: sock5 - - - - 172.37.0.34
>where the IP is the LAN-wide IP of our firewall.
>	2) As root,
>		cp $KDEDIR/bin/kdeinit $KDEDIR/bin/kdeinit.orig
>	   where, on Mandrake 7.2, KDEDIR=/usr
>	3) As root,
>		echo 'runsocks kdeinit.orig $*' > $KDEDIR/bin/kdeinit
>
>
>How it works:
>	runsocks intercepts network-related (libc?) function calls using LD_PRELOAD
>and turns them into SOCKS operations.  The program being executed with
>runsocks is none the wiser.  You usually use runsocks like this:
>	'runsocks ftp ftp.kde.org'
> or similarly.
>	You, therefore, might be tempted to run konqueror like this:
>	'runsocks konqueror http://www.kde.org'
>but it wouldn't work.  All of the network IO is handled by kioslaves which
> do not run in the konqueror process but instead are started by kdeinit as
> dynamically loaded libraries. So what we really want to do is to turn every
> exec of 'kdeinit' into 'runsocks kdeinit', thus, we have the above hack.
>
>Enjoy.  Let me know if you have any problems.
>


Dave
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