For class, I have to write a basic proxy server in C.
I need to test it with firefox, and I’m not sure how to do that.
Say I have the server listening on port X– how do I make firefox (on the same computer) send its requests there?
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For class, I have to write a basic proxy server in C.
I need to test it with firefox, and I’m not sure how to do that.
Say I have the server listening on port X– how do I make firefox (on the same computer) send its requests there?
You can set the proxy that Firefox uses in the Advanced > Network > Connection dialogue. You will almost certainly want to set your proxy (host localhost, port X) as an HTTP proxy. (The first box, labelled “HTTP proxy”, takes the hostname, the second, labelled “port”, the port.)