Daily Ramblings

This is something that I need to check on quite often to test if the proxy works as expected:

curl -x <proxy-ip>:<proxy-port> http://ident.me -v --proxy-user '<proxy-username>:<proxy-password>'

Note the content in <> tags needs to be replace by the appropriate variables

The above command will hit http://ident.me via the proxy, and the IP returned should be the proxies IP

If the proxy auth fails, the response will be:

< HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required                                                                           
< Server: squid/3.5.23                                                                                                 
< Mime-Version: 1.0                                                                                                    
< Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:40:28 GMT                                                                                  
< Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8                                                                                
< Content-Length: 3577                                                                                                 
< X-Squid-Error: ERR_CACHE_ACCESS_DENIED 0                                                                             
< Vary: Accept-Language                                                                                                
< Content-Language: en                                                                                                 
< Proxy-Authenticate: Basic realm="proxy"                                                                              
< Connection: keep-alive                                                                                               
<                                                                                                                      
* Ignore 3577 bytes of response-body                                                                                   
* Received HTTP code 407 from proxy after CONNECT                                                                      
* CONNECT phase completed!                                                                                             
* Closing connection 0                                                                                                 
curl: (56) Received HTTP code 407 from proxy after CONNECT