Recently I had to capture some HTTP and HTTPS requests and responses for documentation I was writing. My first thought was to use the HTTP Inspector from ActiveState Komodo 4.0. Unfortunately, HTTP ...

Proxy servers don’t get as much attention as VPNs when it comes to internet privacy, and that makes sense. Whereas VPNs offer many different security benefits, the best proxies are useful for specific ...

Researcher warns that many .NET applications might be vulnerable to arbitrary file writes because .NET’s HTTP client proxy classes also accept non-HTTP URLs, a behavior developers are responsible to ...

If you are in an environment that disallows the use of SSH and forces the use of an HTTP proxy, it is possible to use that HTTP proxy as a transport for SSH. Vincent Danen explains how to use the ...

Guest contributor Rafael Akchurin of QuintoLabs presents this how-to article on setting up web content filtering on Squid Proxy. We may earn from vendors via ...

SOCKS is built in to OpenSSH, so it's a trivial matter to set up a local SOCKS proxy with the -D flag. For example: $ ssh -D 12345 myuser@remote_ssh_server will open up the port 12345 on your local ...