Question

I’m making a SSH Tunnelling application, and need to be able to automatically force the system to use HTTP & Socks5 proxies, and have the changes take effect instantly.
HTTP proxies are now taken care of perfectly by the PoshHTTP class , but I can’t figure out how to do the same with SOCKS5.

I’ve already tried forcing the changes in the registry, but they don’t take effect instantly and it’s just not reliable. In most cases I had to open internet options > lan settings before the settings would take effect, so the user may as well have set the proxy up manually by this point.

Is there a way to do this that I’m missing ? It would be amazing if I could just modify poshHTTP to do this, but I don’t have high hopes.

Answer 1

Found the solution after asking for help on another forum.
In the end I was able to continue to use the PoshHTTP class I used elsewhere but instead of passing just ip:port use it like this

PoshHttp.Proxies.SetProxy("socks=socks://$ip:$port");