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Trying to get yahoo messenger to work through proxy

Asked by reds55 in Network Software Firewalls

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While at work, I want to use a proxy for my yahoo instant messages, for legitamate privacy reasons (nosey network admins).  I want to go thru a squid proxy running on a linux box at home.

I got Aol instant messenger working as described below, but Yahoo does not work following the same procedure.

To get AOL instant messenger (AIM) working, I added 5190 (the port AIM uses) to the acl entry in squid.conf.  For yahoo I also added 5050 (yahoo's port), so that line in squid.conf now reads as follows:

  acl SSL_ports port 443 563 5190 5050

Then in AIM, I check the proxy checkbox, and enter my host (127.0.0.1) and port (squid's port, 3128).  The reason my host is 127.0.0.1 is because I use putty to tunnel into my linux server, and port 3128 is forwarded.

I verified that this works by running a sniffer on my computer (ethereal), and verifying that without the proxy configured, I see outbound IP packets on port 5190, and with the proxy enabled, no such packets are sniffed.

I configured Yahoo messenger similarly and was able to connect, HOWEVER, the sniffer detected that the yahoo packets (on port 5050) are routed to the external destination IP, rather than being tunnelled through the proxy.  

My yahoo select an HTTP proxy just like in AOL, with host 127.0.0.1 and port 3128 (I also tried using port 80)

Since squid's port 3128 is not open, the only way to reach squid is through the ssh tunnel, so my squid.conf has no access restrictions (acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 )

What am I doing wrong?

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