Hi, I would like to know, if it's possible for ooniprobe to make queries through socks proxy server ?
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Hello,
paja:
I would like to know, if it's possible for ooniprobe to make queries through socks proxy server ?
You can use a socks proxy for requests, specify it with: '-s' or '--socksproxy=' 'ip:port'
Running `ooniprobe test_name --help` will give you all available options.
Hope this helps.
Cheers, ~Vasilis
On 23/05/2017 13:30 +0000, Vasilis wrote:
I would like to know, if it's possible for ooniprobe to make queries through socks proxy server ?
You can use a socks proxy for requests, specify it with: '-s' or '--socksproxy=' 'ip:port'
While it is true that some tests support the socksproxy option (I believe only http_request actually fully supports it), it's not all recommended that you use ooniprobe over a socks proxy.
The reasons for this are that:
* Only HTTP requests will run over the SOCKS proxy, so tests that depend on DNS, for example, will not properly measure the socks proxy
* The GeoIP lookup will not be done over the SOCKS proxy and hence the measurements will indicate the wrong country and network information
* In general SOCKS proxies are quite unreliable and also you are sending all you network traffic in plaintext across the internet
If you do decide to run ooniprobe via SOCKS proxie nonetheless, I would request that you run it with the -n option so as to not upload measurements to the public OONI collectors.
Could you provide more information on what is the use case that you have in mind, so that maybe we can provide better guidance?
~ Arturo
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:08:54AM +0200, paja wrote:
I would like to know, if it's possible for ooniprobe to make queries through socks proxy server ?
I'd also like to notice that running ooniprobe through various proxy servers and VPNs is sometimes a bad idea as proxy servers may have their own rules to filter the internet access and their network location may differ a lot from "usual user" network location, e.g. proxy server may be deployed in some datacenter with good bandwidth and lack of filtering and "ordinary user" may be actually using old 2G phone through IRDA behind restrictive firewall that does not permit connecting to evrey single domain containing substring "jihad".
But network topology varies a lot from country to country, so I'd like you to give some more details regarding your plan to use proxies for gathering ooniprobe data.
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