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[deregular]

OK Im having a brain fart moment.

I normally run spammy announcement scripts from my local wamp install, however I am finding myself now
in the need for more automation.. (re.. scripts run from cron) and also not on my local wamp,
but on a dev box that I have here running FreeBSD.

Being a noobie System admin, ive not had to worry about proxy support for requests sent
like this before, as my scripts use proxy support through Privoxy/Tor/Curl.

How is it done? How can I make sure that all requests through this box (Posting) are proxified?

[vsloathe]

Need more information...

You can do application-level proxying, e.g. specify a proxy to use in your script...

Or you can do service level proxying, use iptables to forward all traffic outbound on a particular port through a proxy

Or you can do global proxying, and forward all requests for anything through a proxy...but I wouldn't recommend that.

[deregular]

I probably shouldnt have said *all* requests.

Im not sure what would be the best way of doing it.

Id be doing it at application level I suppose.
As Id write a script to check my proxy list, then pull proxies from a database to use within curl.

Is this all I'd need? Is it this easy?

Probably a dumb question, but Im not really up to speed on network stuff as yet.
Ive always taken the easy way out and used programs already built, but have now
decided to start rolling my own way of doing things.

For what its worth this is how I have been running some scripts thus far from WAMP,
using P/T/Vidalia.

Code:

$tor = 'localhost:8118';
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $tor);
if (isset($proxy)) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTP );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5 );
}

[vsloathe]

Yeah that's fine.

If you're using BSD, I assume you have portage? You'll want to install the tor bundle, configure it (there are a plethora of how-to's on the web for various flavors of *nix + tor), and then just set it as your proxy in cURL.

[deregular]

Yep, i use the ports.

Thanks vs.

[emonk]

 Another nice way to do this is with ProxyChains. It'll will 'proxify' any application, without the need for any re-coding. If you combine that with Tor, you could do it all without having to alter any code.

[deregular]

Interesting. Thanks emonk, will take a look.