Poor Man's Foxyproxy for Safari

Safari is a lot faster than Firefox on Mac OS X, I have been thinking about switching to Safari but not having a Foxyproxy equivalent was a big problem.

Fortunately Apple does provide a command to set/enable/disable proxy settings. Following script implements a poor man's version of Foxyproxy when you run it, it will setup a SSH SOCKS proxy to the server and enable proxy settings for safari, when killed with Ctrl-C, it will kill the SSH connection and disable proxy settings. 

#!/bin/bash

DEVICE="Airport"
HOST="127.0.0.1"
PORT="9999"


echo "[+] Connecting"
ssh -ND $PORT [email protected] &
FIND_PID=$!
sleep 5

echo "[+] Enabling Proxy"
sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxy $DEVICE $HOST $PORT off

function quit {
    echo "[+] Disabling Proxy"
    sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxystate $DEVICE off
    kill -9 $FIND_PID
    exit
}

trap "quit" SIGINT SIGTERM

while :
do
    sleep 60
done

Save it somewhere on your machine, and make it executable. 

chmod 755 foxy-proxy.sh

Now you are ready to defeat that evil proxy.

Tags: apple bash ssh