Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser(val.packett.cool) |
Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser(val.packett.cool) |
You can actually use Traefik to do something similar using its Docker service discovery. Instead of being a SOCKS proxy, Traefik is a reverse proxy, and you can combine with `lvh.me` which resolves all subdomains to localhost. I don't use this technique any more, but a functional example command can be seen here: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/c49e2b4ddd0fe591...
To show the other side of the coin: SOCKS proxies are less convenient, as they require you to configure your entire browser (your entire system on macOS) to use it.
Maybe they simply banned some user agents commonly used by IA scrapers.
Yeah that often works, but also requires running things locally or redeploying them. For quick debugging, trying to use the service without altering it is more convenient.
> as they require you to configure your entire browser (your entire system on macOS) to use it
See my other comment. I'm on macOS, and I'm quite happy with FoxyProxy, which allows for individual pages to use a SOCKS proxy based on a regex (or just via an on/off toggle).
It is no big deal. The blog post shows the usage of a pac file which only redirects the local .podman tld to the socks proxy.
It is only maybe an issue if you are using a company issued computer already using a pac file from a GPO. But in that case you can totally decide to dedicate a browser for it and setup the socks proxy only for it. Choices.