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* tsocks: Add tsocks to meta-network/recipes-protocolsJason Wessel2015-10-211-0/+23
The tsocks program is frequently used to easily wrap any generic program such as telnet, ssh, wget or any other tcp socket program using an LD_PRELOAD library. One might use an ssh tunnel and wget for example. Example of tunnel via ssh to remote url: ssh -N -D 1080 $REMOTE_HOST_TUNNEL_ENDPOINT & cat<<EOF>tsocks.conf server_port = 1080 server = 127.0.0.1 EOF TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=$PWD/tsocks.conf tsocks curl $REMOTE_URL Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joe MacDonald <joe_macdonald@mentor.com>