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armon | 5 years ago

That is correct! The local proxy has a listening socket and handles all the authentication, encapsulation, and forwarding transparently.

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parliament32|5 years ago

So does it intercept all connections on that port (from the client app) and pass them along? Or do I need to reconfigure my client application to talk to localhost:whatever? Your only example is that curl using a hostname, it's not really clear.

armon|5 years ago

You would point the application at the local port. It operates very similarly to SSH port forwarding. No fancy magic to intercept all traffic.

zokier|5 years ago

I started thinking, using network namespaces to intercept traffic from client applications would be pretty neat trick.