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IE 11 Failure with PuTTY-Based SOCKS5 Proxy

I have set up a PuTTY-based SOCKS5 proxy as follows: I have configured IE11 to use this proxy as follows: I have also configured Firefox 52.7.3 (32-bit) to use this proxy in the exact same manner: ...
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Access the web through SOCKS, SSH and then HTTP Proxy

WGH The web is full of guides like this, explaining how to make firefox using SOCKS connection to an SSH tunnel. It Almost fits my needed. I have followed the instructions and it works fine, but ...
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access websites with custom https port via socks proxy

I use a socks4 proxy in chrome (ssh tunnel via putty listens on localhost:60000) which works fine for all websites with the default http ports 80 and 443. What does NOT work is accessing websites over ...
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Enabling socks proxy in my browser is freezing my putty terminal

Local system - Windows 8.1, Putty, Firefox with FoxyProxy addon (Socks5) Remote server - Ubuntu 14.04 (headless) When i enable FoxyProxy and use SSH tunneling, the putty session freezes and the ...
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Tunneling HTTPS traffic via a PUTTY/SSL tunnel with SOCKS

I have configured a SOCKS ssh tunnel to a remote proxy, and set my Firefox to use localhost:<port> as a SOCKS proxy. My intention is to tunnel outgoing HTTP/S connections from my machine via a ...
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Putty error trying to Proxy SSH thru SOCK5 proxy: Proxy returned Unexpected Version - any help?

I get an error trying to connect to a server thru SSH via a SOCK5 proxy with Putty. The error is: Proxy returned Unexpected Version Any clue what this error is, or how to troubleshoot? the Proxy ...
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