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Configure Flash Player ALONE to connect via an existing, working SOCKS SSH tunnel?

  • 23-01-2010 2:18pm
    #1
    runswithascript
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    Before I start please note a similar thread exists on the Net & Comms forum although it goes into further networking related detail why my current workaround is infeasible. The reason I am posting this version here is to see if there is any solution within Flash Player itself.

    I use Flash with Portable Firefox from a USB pen drive. It appears to work fine with using my SSH tunnel with virtually all Facebook apps I have tested it on but when I try to use Facebook's Zynga Texas HoldEm Poker it returns the error:
    Your firewall may be blocking access to port 9339.
    I deduce from this that Flash ignores the connection settings configured in Firefox Portable and attempts to connect directly.

    N.B. - the tunnel itself is definitely working fine and accommodates all other traffic, I have checked my IP online to confirm this.

    I am able to work around this by using Sockscap, a freeware lightweight SOCKS wrapper which wraps all of Firefox Portable in the proxy 127.0.0.1:5555 which is a SOCKS SSH tunnel configured with PuTTY connecting to OpenSSH running at home. The problem with this method is I use the same browser to connect to local systems in different tabs on the same session, and when Firefox Portable returns my home IP to said systems access is denied.

    I am researching a way to only SOCKS wrap TCP/9339, 74.114.14.41 the IP the connection needs to be established with, *.facebook.com, *zynga.com or Flash itself in its entirety, which is why I am here.

    If relevant my Flash Player install is portable? That is, I manually installed NPSWF32.dll and flashplayer.xpt to /Firefox Portable/Data/plugins/.

    My options within Sockscap:

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    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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