Using a SOCKS proxy

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There are two cases:

  • the application you want to use handles SOCKS proxies (for example Firefox) then you just have to configure it to use the proxy
  • the application you want to use does not handle SOCKS proxies then you can try to use tsocks (available in extra)
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