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Proxy app?

Does anyone know of an app that allows your phone to become a web proxy?
Let me explain my situation... I work for a corporation that filters all their internet connections through a web proxy, which sucks cuz I can't visit any of the fun sites... one way around this I've found was to use ICS on my phone but that interferes with the default gateway on the current network.
All traffic on the network by default goes to an internal gateway on the local intranet and it really needs to stay this way because there are too many work ip's and ports to be able to statically route all of them through a specific destination and leave the default gateway as the ICS 192.168.1.1.
I have been able to create static routes to specific ip addresses (like my home computer) which override the default gateway and use ICS instead.. this is great but obviously not that great for web browsing and masking my use on the internet... what I would like to be able to do is set the HTTP proxy to my phone and have it handle all of the redirection... that would allow me to have a single route in the routing tables but span out to wherever I want on the web...
Oh, and yes, I have thought of just setting up a proxy on my home comp and routing through the phone -> home comp -> back through phone but that obviously limits me to the upstream bandwidth of my home network... which isn't TERRIBLE, and is feasible but obviously if I could eliminate the extra jump it would be much much better.
I can handle the routing tables np, they're easy to add from command-line.. problem is I need some kind of a proxy application on the phone that will handle all of the HTTP calls... anyone know of an application such as this?
Thanks

Hm can't say I know of an app that does this... it is planned for one of the upcoming releases of WMWifiRouter but that's still a while away and may give you the gateway issue again.

Chainfire said:
Hm can't say I know of an app that does this... it is planned for one of the upcoming releases of WMWifiRouter but that's still a while away and may give you the gateway issue again.
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Ya I did more googling and still can't find anything... I just setup dante server on my linux vm at home and got a good socks proxy going.. seems to be working very well.. my upstream on cable is 80k/sec so that's not too bad I guess.
I'll keep an eye on wmwifirouter release notes though thanks

Proxy auto-config PAC file?

Hi guys, I'm one of the many people having problems connecting to the internet over wifi with a proxy. I just can't get it to work. I am using my university wifi network, and I can connect to the network fine, access the login pages, and browse the university intranet fine, but cannot connect to any outside pages.
The uni provides a PAC file (and strongly recommends it's use) but there doesn't seem to be any way to use this in 6.1. Does anyone know of an app or anything that can configure proxy using a PAC file?
(I have tried connections-connection-advanved-select networks-new and entering the proxy manually but just doesn't work.)
Cheers.

Same problem here...

Not sure about the PAC file but you can use TransProxy or AutoProxy to configure the proxies in your phone. Open the PAC file using a Notepad and it should show you the Port and IP address of your Proxy Server. Use that information while configuring the proxy software.

I know this is old, but this is an ongoing problem and I figured out how to use a .pac proxy file! After reading about proxy's and what .pac files are, I stumbled upon a little hint and after a little tinkering I was able to use my work's wifi that uses an auto-config .pac file and my phone and tablet has full internet access with browser, apps etc including Netflix for example.
Here are the steps you need:
1) Your phone has to be rooted to take advantage of the proxy apps on the market, I personally use ProxyDroid, which is free and has a feature to bind certain proxy profiles to automatically turn on when a certain wifi network is connected.
2) Usually there is an option that gives you an http proxy pac file to manually input to your browsers or what not, so whatever the link is, put it an active internet browser to download the pac file (an example of the url with the pac file would be something like http://internet.xxxxx.com/proxy.pac)
3) Where ever you download the pac file, open it with notepad or wordpad and this will reveal all the proxy info you need in order to access the proxy enable wifi. What the ProxyDroid app needs from the PAC file is the Host url and Port number. When you open a PAC file in notepad, you'll see something like this near the top along with a bunch of other things under it:
"Cisco Remote Envelope Service
if (dstHost=="internet.e-mail") {
return "PROXY internet-x-x.xxxxxx.com:9090""
- So in "Host" under Proxy Settings in the ProxyDroid app you would input: internet-x-x.xxxx.com
- For the "Port" you would put input: 9090
4) After inputting those 2 pieces of info into the ProxyDroid app, turn the wifi on for your Android Device then enable to ProxyDroid app, you should able to connect to the proxy enabled wifi!
*Some notes for the ProxyDroid app.
- It allows for Authentication, but since my work wifi does not use that, I'm not sure how it would work
- For Proxy type, I set it as an HTTP
- I binded the specific proxy profile to my work wifi so it would ProxyDroid would automatically enable when work wifi was detected
Hope this bit of info helps other that have Android devices and were unable to use a proxy enable wifi to finally access them. Hopefully in the future, Android will make using proxy and pac files a lot easier like how it's done on the ipad where they allow you to manually set up proxy settings by having the device download the PAC file.
This works on both a rooted AT&T HTC Inspire and a HP Touchpad running CM7 Alpha

If anyone is reading this, there is an easier way. Check out Autoproxy on the market. You can add a new proxy, put in the address to the proxy.pac file, and it will connect to the correct proxy everytime.
That's also useful if you're on a network where they keep changing the proxy (like the place I work). It auto-connects to the proxy when you're on that network, so it's set and forget.

Thank you, dtothesquare. I finally managed to connect my Galaxy S to my university's wi-fi, something that I couldn't do for over a year. The university doesn't officially support Android. I must have done dozens of Google searches to find this. Your advice really works, I'm so happy!

.pac proxy

anyway to use a .pac proxy URL on android?

don't think you can do this,think the phone os not able to understand, why do you need to use pac files?
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I know this is old, but this is an ongoing problem and I figured out how to use a .pac proxy file! After reading about proxy's and what .pac files are, I stumbled upon a little hint and after a little tinkering I was able to use my work's wifi that uses an auto-config .pac file and my phone and tablet has full internet access with browser, apps etc including Netflix for example.
Here are the steps you need:
1) Your phone has to be rooted to take advantage of the proxy apps on the market, I personally use ProxyDroid, which is free and has a feature to bind certain proxy profiles to automatically turn on when a certain wifi network is connected.
2) Usually there is an option that gives you an http proxy pac file to manually input to your browsers or what not, so whatever the link is, put it an active internet browser to download the pac file (an example of the url with the pac file would be something like http://internet.xxxxx.com/proxy.pac)
3) Where ever you download the pac file, open it with notepad or wordpad and this will reveal all the proxy info you need in order to access the proxy enable wifi. What the ProxyDroid app needs from the PAC file is the Host url and Port number. When you open a PAC file in notepad, you'll see something like this near the top along with a bunch of other things under it:
"Cisco Remote Envelope Service
if (dstHost=="internet.e-mail") {
return "PROXY internet-x-x.xxxxxx.com:9090""
- So in "Host" under Proxy Settings in the ProxyDroid app you would input: internet-x-x.xxxx.com
- For the "Port" you would put input: 9090
4) After inputting those 2 pieces of info into the ProxyDroid app, turn the wifi on for your Android Device then enable to ProxyDroid app, you should able to connect to the proxy enabled wifi!
*Some notes for the ProxyDroid app.
- It allows for Authentication, but since my work wifi does not use that, I'm not sure how it would work
- For Proxy type, I set it as an HTTP
- I binded the specific proxy profile to my work wifi so it would ProxyDroid would automatically enable when work wifi was detected
Hope this bit of info helps other that have Android devices and were unable to use a proxy enable wifi to finally access them. Hopefully in the future, Android will make using proxy and pac files a lot easier like how it's done on the ipad where they allow you to manually set up proxy settings by having the device download the PAC file.
I've tested and this works on both a rooted AT&T HTC Inspire and a HP Touchpad running CM7 Alpha

shaunm1989 said:
anyway to use a .pac proxy URL on android?
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Check out autoproxy on the market. It's my app and it's new. It's the only app that supports proxy.pac proxies directly. Just put the address to the file there, and click connect. It will also auto-connect when you're on the same network again (and disconnect when you're off it) so it's set and forget. It will allow you to use any apps, as long as the port is not blocked by the proxy.

Dtothesquare, that technique will work for simple proxy implementations but some organizations have a cluster of proxy servers that may serve different clients (closer to client without using anycast) or destinations. For example, a proxy server may be set up to just handle *.com while another could handle just internal hosts. It can also be used for sending clients to an alternate proxy server should the primary one be down for some reason.
Our proxy server has ACLs that only let it proxy certain URLs and returns an error if it receives something that's not allowed on that server.

[HOWTO] Use VPN with your Android & Home Router

This is a simple tutorial to allow you to connect to the internet using VPN through your home router.
:NOTE: At present, the steps here are sparse. They assume some technical capability to set things up yourself, this is just kindof a guide as to WHAT you'll need to setup.
Why, you ask? Security. Using a VPN will essentially encrypt your communications though a tunnel back to your home computer. Not going into all that here, basically a simple guide. I assume we're all smart here, so the basics.
Prerequisites
1. DD-WRT V24 Capable router. If you don't have this, then you will need to instead use a different method involving installing software on your PC that I won't cover here. The advantage of the DD-WRT router is ease of setup on the router, and not having to have your computer turned on.
2) Capable Android Phone & Provider. I can't troubleshoot your ROM or provider. Some Android Roms don't support VPN, and it's broken in some. Some providers apparently block it. If your Rom is good and your provider doesn't block it, you're golden. In some cases (such as on the G2X) custom kernels (such as Faux123's) will add the necessary TUN support. Or you may need to add a TUN.KO file if it doesn't... again, device specific, refer to appropriate device forums.
3) If you don't have a static IP (I assume you don't) you'll need a dynamic DNS provider compatible with DD-WRT. I prefer freedns.afraid.org, but you can use any o these: dyndns.org, zoneedit.com, No-Ip.com, 3322.org, easydns.com tzo.com or dynsip.org.
Got all that? Great!
Okay, here's the fun bit.
STEP 1
First, you need to hack your router. It's a LOT like rooting your Android phone. How to do it is BEYOND the scope of what I can write here, but what you need to do is visit http://www.dd-wrt.com and have a look around. Or, you can actually purchase routers with DD-WRT pre-installed. Basically you have to flash a custom ROM onto your router. It needs to support VPN, and be at least version "v24 SP1". Older versions may have a DIFFERENT VPN setup that's not as easy. Don't say I didn't warn you. I flashed the full-featured VOIP version to my router, a Buffalo WHR-G54S.
Unlocking (if necessary) and flashing your router with DD-WRT is a topic as broad as rooting/flashing Android - so I can't help you here. But once it is done, you are ready for....
STEP 2
Setup your dynamic DNS provider. I used http://freedns.afraid.org/ to do this. Basically you go to the site and sign up for the free "subdomain" services. You can pick a name that will be on a number of different domains, such as "us.to", where you could maybe pick something like "kick.us.to" if it isn't taken yet. All that matters is you remember the name.
Next, in DD-WRT, go to the Setup->DDNS tab and select the proper DDNS service and enter the information it asks for -- your service used, username, password and hostname usually. You can usually leave update interval at the default, and normally you don't need to use external IP check.
NOTE: You need to make sure you are not "Double NAT-ed".. this means two routers stacked is a nono. If you have a router connected to a cable/dsl router (instead of a cable/dsl modem), then it needs to be set to BRIDGE mode. Again.. complicated and really a topic best dealt with on its own.
Once you've setup your Dynamic DNS, you're well on your way. You can actually use that hostname for all sorts of things, such as always being able to get Audiogalaxy to connect to the right host without having to know a numeric IP that could change.
STEP 3
You're on a roll... Now, time to setup the VPN in the router. This is done under the Services->VPN tab. If that tab doesn't exist, then you got the wrong version of DD-WRT and need to go back to Step 1.
Enable PPTP Server, Broadcast Support, MPPE Encryption. Under Server IP enter your ROUTER's IP address (usually 192.168.1.1, or whatever you use to connect to your router). Under Client IP's, enter the range of clients on your local network in the format: 192.168.1.100-149 (where 100-149 represents possible IP addresses I've set in DD-WRT for my LAN)... this doesn't seem as important since we'll be connecting from outside.. Just do it.
Under CHAP-Secrets enter in your preferred username and password in the format:
username * password *
that is, the username, a space, *, a space, the password, a space and then *
Save and apply settings. (You need to click both SAVE and APPLY, DD-WRT is weird like this)
STEP 4
Back to Android! Yay! This part of the procedure may vary by phone, but this is how it is on my Gingerbread T-Mobile G2X with faux123's kernel.
Goto Settings->Wireless & Networks->VPN Settings->Add VPN->Add PPTP VPN
VPN Name=whatever you want
VPN server= your dynamic IP name you selected in Step 2
Enable encryption = Yes
now, hit Menu->Save
You should now see your VPN listed under VPNs. Click on it, and select CONNECT. Type in your username and password you selected at the end of Step 3.
It should connect. CONGRATULATIONS!
You should also have a notification in your taskbar that will now let you disconnect from the VPN.
STEP 5
Enjoy! .. wait, what? It didn't work? It did for me!!!
I guess.... ask questions here, or if it appears to be a phone issue, ask in your device's appropriate forum (and link to this thread so people know what guide you're following)
And, if anybody reading this is a better expert in setting this stuff up than I am, feel free to critique/laugh/criticize/constructively comment on this little howto and I'll correct anything I Rick Perry'd.

Nice tutorial! Would have been better if you also included more details in hacking our router

DroidVPN said:
Nice tutorial! Would have been better if you also included more details in hacking our router
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I would have, but like I said, that's a topic as big as phone hacking itself. Every model of router is going to be different! There may be models that support VPN in the router as well without DD-WRT, but I'm not familiar with that setup.
DD-WRT's website has a pretty huge forum on what routers are compatible and how to set it all up.

The optimal speed can be achieved by the compression of traffic and by minimizing server loads. Web acceleration will enable you bring about a drastic improvement in the web page response time. This kind of acceleration usually come in lesser costs and offers the best web application performance.

So Wat does this do? Keeps u secured from the eyes of the ISP?.. harder for others to hack u?...
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evilgenius00 said:
So Wat does this do? Keeps u secured from the eyes of the ISP?.. harder for others to hack u?...
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda premium
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lotherius said:
Security. Using a VPN will essentially encrypt your communications though a tunnel back to your home computer.
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Yeah, that.
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10char.

Nice TUT, VPN working

Thanks. I mostly appreciated the idea of using afraid.org.
For some reason, Dyndns and no-ip wouldn't work with ICS as client.

thanks for this tut, keep it up

nice.. thanks for sharing

The cool thing is, once you start hacking your router, you open up all sorts of fun. Like using a virtual wireless network to bridge the open wifi network that gets 1 bar of signal in one little corner of your apartment to be a full strength WPA protected network with your own SSID and subnet that all of your devices can use ... not like I would do such a thing. Now, I *am* a bit afraid to try to set up a VPN on the bridged virtual network..... that could get complicated.

Will this also work with OpenDNS?
Already running DDWRT v24 on WRT600N, and trying to figure this VPN stuff to connect my Atrix running CM10. Thanks for any help

katinatez said:
Will this also work with OpenDNS?
Already running DDWRT v24 on WRT600N, and trying to figure this VPN stuff to connect my Atrix running CM10. Thanks for any help
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Any service which gives you a stable hostname to the outside network should work.

If you have a higher end router that supports the mega builds (8MB flash), then you can opt for OpenVPN which is more secure than PPTP. Setup is more complicated though.

australix said:
If you have a higher end router that supports the mega builds (8MB flash), then you can opt for OpenVPN which is more secure than PPTP. Setup is more complicated though.
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Still using a (now antiquated) Buffalo WHR-G54S which has 4MB flash and 16MB Ram... so while it has a lot of features, OpenVPN is lacking... so I can't test that method personally.
This Buffalo is the best router I've ever owned, though. I still can do without gigabit or N networking, so I'm not upgrading. I went through 5 or 6 bad routers (even a Linksys WRT-54G that crashed constantly) before I got this one.

Thanks for all the info here. I've deleted the post because I think my issue is with something else.
Thanks..
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very...helpfull..!!!

Very easy guide! Thanks!

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nice cool...

bumpin this because i have a question regarding this, i just set this up and it works great
there are mainly two types of auth vpn servers use, certificate authentication and username/password
i tried to set up password one, and you still need the server public certificate along with username/password, but you don't need client public and private keys unlike with cert auth.
now, i placed the server key, ca.crt, on my internal storage and together with username/password, works great, my concern is security of this file. this file needs to be accessible right, so you can't put it in /etc or /system, having it in internal storage, any app with storage permission can read it... isn't this a security risk? how is this solved? where do i put the file?
thanks
edit: also, how do i *prevent* network traffic without vpn? i know there is always on option and start on boot, but i did, and when the boot finnishes there is a brief moment when the phone connects on mobile network just before initializing vpn and in that brief moment android probably sends all sorts of passwords and data through the network ... how do i delay this until vpn is initialized?

OpenVPN anomalies in CM7.2

tl;dr Google Talk/AndFTP/SIP can't connect over an OpenVPN connection in CM7.2
My OpenVPN configuration has worked for several months. But since 7.2 came out, I've been troubleshooting a problem with my phone's VPN connection to my home server. The symptom I'm seeing is that apps besides the web browser cannot connect to anything over the VPN, including the VPN host itself. When I use tcpdump to watch traffic going over my server's tun0 adapter, I don't see packets sent from AndFTP and SIP (the phone dialer's SIP) ever reach the server. Strangely, the web browser works just fine over the VPN. I'm able to view websites normal, and even connect to my webserver on port 8080.
Like you (probably), my first assumption is that a problem like this is due to misconfiguration somewhere. However I'm starting to think that's not the case this time. My VPN configuration is very simple, and I don't use any iptables netfilter rules anywhere (the server is behind a nat router). These apps work just fine over my VPN when I'm using the old CM7-12112011-nightly-olympus build. My Ubuntu laptop also has no issues using the VPN. I have observed the route table (# busybox route -n) after the VPN connection is made using the latest nightly, and the old build which works. Both routes are the same (for whatever reason, the default gateway isn't removed, but it works on the old build anyway).
So I have only seen this issue when I'm running CM7.2 RC1 or the latest nightly: update-cm-7-20120409-NIGHTLY-olympus-signed.zip
For now I'm back on the CM7-12112011-nightly build, and my apps work on my VPN again. But I wanted to post this here incase this issue affected anyone else. I'm not sure how to continue troubleshooting it, or whether it might even be related to a bug.

I can use Pandora just fine over VPN, as well as download stuff from the Market/Play and use GTalk.
Here's my server config if you want to compare it
Code:
$ cat /etc/openvpn/server.conf
port 12345
proto udp
dev tun
ca /etc/openvpn/blahblah.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/blahblah.crt
key /etc/openvpn/blahblah.key
dh /etc/openvpn/blahblah.pem
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
push "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp"
push "dhcp-option DNS 208.67.220.220"
push "dhcp-option DNS 208.67.222.222"
client-to-client
duplicate-cn
keepalive 10 120
comp-lzo
user nobody
group nogroup
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
log /var/log/openvpn.log
verb 3

Ok if these builds are working for you, that does indicate it's just some misconfiguration on my end.
update: I did fresh installs of the last atrix-dev-team build and the latest cm7.2 nightly. On both builds apps are working over the VPN just fine. The only thing that doesn't work is the dialer's built in SIP, it won't connect over the VPN. It works when I'm on the same lan as the server, but not otherwise over the vpn. Watching tcdump, I never see packets coming from the phone when I enable "Receive incoming calls."
So I just gave up trying to get the SIP dialer to work on my VPN, and installed CSipSimple and SIPDroid. Both work just fine over VPN. While both these apps are popular, I was only avoiding using them since I didn't think they would be necessary. I've used the dialer's SIP to proxy calls over asterisk in the past with my original A855 Droid. Not sure why it doesn't work anymore, but not a big deal either.

I am also having some difficulty with openvpn. I am running CM7.2 RC3 on my Atrix. I have never had it working before on the Atrix (recent convert to CM7), but have had it working on laptops and an iphone. Was intrigued that it appears to be built in. I just cannot get it to work.
My issues are:
1) I cannot use the tun device. If I try, it appears to connect, then errors out.
Code:
N read UDPv4 [ECONNREFUSED]: Connection refused (code=146)
If I select tap, it will connect, but then it tells me that there are fragment errors
Code:
FRAG_IN error flags=0xfa3333ff: FRAG_TEST not implemented
2) I cannot add the 'extra arguments' under the advanced settings. I try tp put "fragment 1400" and . I'd like to add mssfix as well, but cannot figure out how to use this input block. If I try "fragment 1400" same thing:
Code:
MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected
When I use tap and keep the extra arguments clear, it appears to connect, but I get nothing: andsmb cannot see smb shares, I cannot get to the router web page, etc.
I have also configured pptp and that will allow me to connect (access shares and see the router web interface (ddwrt). I would prefer openvpn, though. Any help appreciated.
My connect script with a laptop is:
Code:
remote xxxx.dyndns-office.com 1194
client
dev tap0
proto udp
mssfix 1400
fragment 1400
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
float
ca ca.crt
cert client1.crt
key client1.key
ns-cert-type server
Keith