From: Ricardo Amorim <mksm.sama@...>
Date: 2010-03-12T05:14:29+09:00
Subject: Re: SOCKSSocket working?

(1) It works with tsocks. I tested using irb without setting
SOCKS_SERVER and worked just fine:

16:58:54 libtsocks(12207): Call to connect received on completed request 3
=> #<Net::FTP:0x2aece22e5b90 @sock=#<TCPSocket:0x2aece22e5938>,
@passive=false, .... >

(2) It doesnt show up in tcpdump. Actually, it seems that Net:::FTP
only creates a SOCKSSocket but doesn't use SOCKS_SERVER at all.

(3) Tried setting it using export and inside the script, doesnt work either way.

(4) Yep, it is using the SOCKS flag.

(5) I've searched for a SOCKS5 package in debian but the only one i've
found is this libsocks4. I wonder if it supports SOCKS5 as well or do
i have to manually compile/install one.

Anyways, i'm just testing Net::FTP as it seems as the only one that
supports SOCKSSocket. I actually need to use SOCKS to do HTTP
requests. Would Net::SSH::Proxy::SOCKS help me with that?

Regards,

mksm


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ricardo Amorim wrote:
>> I compiled ruby-1.8.7-p249 with --enable-socks and package libsocks4
>> installed in Debian lenny.
>>
>> Well, i'm trying to get SOCKS working with Net::FTP. I started "ssh -N
>> -D 8000 user@otherhostip" and configured SOCKS_SERVER=127.0.0.1:8000.
>> When i connect to a FTP server in irb, i can see the SOCKSSocket being
>> initialized (@sock=#<SOCKSSocket:0x0000000248aca0>) but looking at ssh
>> debug, it's not using actually using SOCKS.
>>
>> Am i doing something wrong or it is not working?
>
> I can't answer your question directly, as I tend to use the
> Net::SSH::Proxy::SOCKS[45] classes supplied with Net::SSH (which may not
> be drop-in replacement in Net::FTP). However I can suggest some things
> to try:
>
> (1) run a standard ruby build under tsocks:
>
>    tsocks ruby myscript.rb
>
> (then all socket calls are transparently socksified). Using tsocks is
> also a very good way to check that your ssh -D is working how you
> expect, since you can use it with any client such as 'telnet'
>
> (2) use 'tcpdump -i lo tcp port 8000' to see whether your ruby code is
> actually trying to use the socks server
>
> (3) try ENV['SOCKS_SERVER'] = '127.0.0.1:8000'
>
> (4) in your ruby build directory, look in ext/socket/mkmf.log
>
> Also when the compile is running, look for -DSOCKS on the gcc command
> line when building the socket extension. If it's missing then there's a
> problem.
>
> (5) give that you're rebuilding ruby to get SOCKS support, it may be
> worth trying a socks5 library. socks4 is very ancient and it wouldn't
> surprise me if it hadn't been well tested in a while.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>