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How to set WIFI proxy via adb shell?
On my Android 7 and 8 devices:
adb shell settings put global http_proxy <address>:<port>
Seems the setting is lost at reboot, however.
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How setup WiFi proxy in Android 9?
The wifi proxy settings are still configured under the advanced options for your wifi network.
The reason you can't find them is just bad Android UX. They're in a scrollable area that doesn't look ...
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using your android phone as a proxy server
If you're just interested in setting a proxy up over your Wifi, you can do that with Servers Ultimate quite easily, but I don't know why anyone would really want to do that. A much more useful option ...
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How to configure BlueStacks App Player to use Proxy settings when connecting to Network?
The other answers are way out of date.
BlueStacks installations now includes a command-line utility HD-ConfigHttpProxy.exe to setup a proxy connection. I can't find documentation for this utility ...
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using your android phone as a proxy server
Servers Ultimate is an advanced app for turning your phone into a server. By the same developer, Proxy Server offers a more basic and solely "Proxy Server based" approach. As stated on its description:...
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How to send all internet traffic to a SOCKS5 proxy server in local network?
The link you have provided is not setting up SOCKS but a transparent proxy i.e. it takes TCP/UDP traffic and SOCKSify it before sending through shadowsocks tunnel. But you need to make your traffic ...
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How to set WIFI proxy via adb shell?
on master device:
Configure wifi proxy manually
adb pull /data/misc/wifi/ipconfig.txt
on second device:
adb shell svc wifi disable
adb push ipconfig.txt /data/misc/wifi/ipconfig.txt
adb shell svc ...
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Why proxy set on Android does not work when used as hotspot?
Your question is related to understanding of OSI model. Proxies use http/https or socks protocol, I assume you are talking about http which is an Application Layer (L7) protocol in OSI model. When an ...
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How setup WiFi proxy in Android 9?
I found you can't edit proxy of an existing WiFi profile anymore, I dunno why they removed the feature.
But you can just remove your saved Wifi profile and add a new, then you will easily find proxy ...
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How to set Wi-Fi HTTPS proxy, not HTTP, via adb shell?
This question is a near duplicate of questions like this and this, and closely related to this and this. In fact it can be better explained by a developer, but since it keeps on appearing again and ...
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Fix ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED due to a change in global proxy by mobile security framework through adb shell on non rooted phone
The cause
I was working with Mobily Security Framework (https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF). It is a set of tools to analyse mobile apps.
In the option of dynamic analysis, my ...
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Any OpenSource SOCKS proxy server for Android?
Use SSH!
You can use the FOSS application SimpleSSHD for this! You can get it directly from that link, the Google Play Store or using the F-droid app store on your phone.
Once setup you can connect to ...
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Possible to share mobile internet (tether) while connected to existing wifi network?
Maybe I am not understanding correctly, but you could set your phone as a Mobile Hotspot and configure a wireless router as a bridge between your existing network and the hotspot. In this scenario, ...
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Configure Android as proxy server
You could try SandroProxy, a free app developed by XDA Developers member SandroBSupp.
It can act as pass-through proxy, traffic is not stored, ssl tunnel
remains the same to server.
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How to set up a socks5 with Android cli?
Android does have HTTP(S) proxy support built-in that can be set through Settings UI and/or command line, but it isn't global, so regarded by proxy-aware apps only. However there is no built-in ...
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Why is not all traffic captured from my device when routing through proxy?
I recently answered in detail to question: How to set Wi-Fi HTTPS proxy, not HTTP, via adb shell?, trying to clear some confusions many of us (including me) have regarding how proxy works.
DOES YOUR ...
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How setup WiFi proxy in Android 9?
click on the pencil to edit network details. A popup appears to change your wifi password, and it doesn't look scrollable but if you scroll you'll see the advanced options and Proxy Settings. Horrible ...
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Using drony to enable system wide ABP
Its better to block ads on android through the hosts file rather than via a proxy but you need root for that. If you have root access the you can use Adaway along with an updated hosts file from XDA ...
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using your android phone as a proxy server
If your phone is rooted (or at least bootloader is unlocked), you can run tinyproxy (HTTP/HTTPS proxy) as init service. It works with both Wi-Fi and Mobile Data, in latter case you have to make sure ...
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Why there's no proxy support in Android browsers?
There's no apparent "technical" reason for that lack. I suspect it'd be something related to the "Android Program Policy" (or whatever else it's called).
In my opinion it looks ...
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Proxy server connection
Most likely the used proxy server is an HTTP proxy server (also called Web Proxy server). This means effectively that you can only make HTTP connections (which is a TCP based protocol).
Online games ...
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Can I use my phone's internet to download files in a Win95 VM in Limbo emulator?
I don't think Limbo supports this. Limbo's networking support uses user-mode support inside the guest operating system, and since Windows 95 is not an OS they have explicit support for, they won't ...
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What is HTTP and socket in opera mini and what is the difference between them?
The socket connection keeps the connection to the sites. The HTTP selection will search for the site, each time searching for the site's IP address.
If you can't get a connection through the socket ...
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Having trouble setting up Android SSH tunnel with port forwarding (x-post /r/ssh)
I ended up using a different SSH server, and setting Firefox config as follows:
network.proxy.type=1
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Use Socks proxy on Android without rooting in Android 5.1
I wrote a tutorial a while ago, should still work, though it's only for web traffic:
https://www.devineloper.com/2013/08/28/setup-socks-proxy-android-without-root/
From what I've read, you can set ...
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Use Socks proxy on Android without rooting in Android 5.1
Drony should work. But not sure if latest SOCKS5 features are supported. Can you try with ccproxy socks5? I'm sure that works with that one.
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How to redirect all web requests from hosts connected to hotspot to a local web server?
NOTE: Solution suggested here requires root access.
I would like for all requests by connected devices to be redirected to my webpage
When you create hotspot, Android runs dnsmasq as DHCP/DNS ...
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using your android phone as a proxy server
I had some trouble getting Servers Ultimate's proxy server to work, and my first thought is that it is because my phone is not rooted. However, the problem here is actually not necessarily at the OS ...
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How to configure BlueStacks App Player to use Proxy settings when connecting to Network?
I have being able to use BlueStacks on my network using cntlm + Proxifier. I use cntlm to authenticate on my proxy and Proxifier as a replacement for Proxycaps/WideCap. Proxifier lets you tunnel your ...
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NTLM authorization proxy on Android
You can find a non-root NTLM proxy here: http://humanos.uci.cu/2015/03/humancode-llega-la-version-3-9-de-ucintlm/ The site is in spanish but the app works for english too. I'm the developer of this ...
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