Re: [squid-users] Squid with Proxifier to use Skype on my phone!!!

William Sardar wrote:
> This is a complicated question; I hope somebody can help!
>
> I want to use skype on my mobile phone through my wifi network (my phone
> has wifi), using an application called fring.
>
> However at university I have to connect to the internet through a proxy
> server. I have the option of using an http or socks proxy and I have
> been using Proxifier on my mac to tunnel my mac-based skype traffic
> through the socks proxy, which works. On my phone there is the option to
> configure a proxy server in the operating system but not in Fring. In
> fact there is no mention of proxy support with fring. But the fact of
> the matter is no matter whether I put in port 8080 (http) or 1080
> (socks) into my phone's configuration, fring won't connect to its network.
>
> I can wait till fring supports proxy servers or I can try and route the
> traffic through my mac then through proxifier like I always have. I can
> get squid working but have no idea how I can get proxifier to 'proxify'
> it as when I choose the squid executable in proxifier, like I normally
> do with other apps, proxifier doesn't pick it up.
>
> I realise this is really a proxifier question and I've sent the same
> question to their technical support, but I was wondering whether there
> is support for socks-proxy tunnelling in squid? I couldn't find anything
> myself.

No. Squid is an HTTP-proxy. It handle HTTP requests and only HTTP requests.

> Or does somebody know a better solution? I wish I could get a
> tunnelling app on my phone but I can't (symbian s60 3rd rev).
>
> William

Amos

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