A lightweight socks5 or Web proxy

[msprout]

Hi all. Longtime fan and customer of Cloudron. It's basically one of four services I actually recommend to people.

Anywho, Cloudron has helped me successfully offboard from most of the non-FOSS software I became reliant on. However, the one thing I think I'm still missing is a light, simple socks5 proxy (or a web proxy tool, if you're like me and old enough to remember the era those were used — they are just very user-friendly).

I can use the VPN deployment (which works great), but most of the people in my life just need a means of using certain blocked apps at work. They're never gonna have the opportunity to install a cert or VPN software on their work machines, so, this is basically the only lever available in that case.

I saw Proxmox Helper Scripts is offering HevSocks5Server, for reference.

Thanks all.

[msbt]

I packaged 3proxy a long time ago. It was working fine, but I eventually didn't need it anymore, so it has been unmaintained. It might need some love since many things changed in Cloudron (probably a better way to do healthchecks), but it will likely be easy to update to the latest version and make it work. It could do both, http and socks5: https://git.cloudron.io/msbt/3proxy-app

[msprout]

I like that idea! 3proxy has a ridiculous number of features, having just looked it up. Only thing I would personally recommend or request is a means of giving a friend a URL, and allowing them to browse sites via my proxy without needing to configure their own local browser.

Back in the early 2000s (when I was but a wee eighth grader), we called these tools "Web proxies," but really, all they were doing was grabbing the user's request via the input form, transmitting it to a backend using CGI, using a headless browser to grab the content of the page, and just present it on the user's screen via an iFrame as if it were native.

I wonder if perhaps this could be done even more modernly using a tool like Neko Browser (https://github.com/m1k1o/neko) that is set up to deploy with your socks5 proxy server pre-configured in a Firefox instance.

Just some thoughts. Glad I struck a chord with others too.

[msprout]

(this is off topic, but, I am a big fan of Cloudron and a swag designer by trade — I have a T-shirt design launching this June at UNIQLO. If Cloudron ever wanted to make a run of swag like tshirts, mugs, posters, stickers, etc [say, for an anniversary celebration], please consider me! Swag stores these days can be built and serviced basically for free.)