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Is there any way to anonymize http requests through the command line? In other words, is it possible to wget a page without the requester's IP showing up?

Dervin Thunk
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One method of annoymizing HTTP traffic from the command line is to use tor. This article discusses the method, titled: How to anonymize the programs from your terminal with torify.

General steps from article

  1. You can install the tor package as follows:

    Fedora/CentOS/RHEL

    $ sudo yum install tor

    Ubuntu/Debian

    $ sudo apt-get install tor

  2. Edit this file /etc/tor/torrc so that the following lines are present and uncommented:

    ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 0

  3. Start the tor service

    $ sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart

  4. Testing setup

    Real IP

    $ curl ifconfig.me 67.253.170.83

    anonymized IP

    $ torify curl ifconfig.me 2>/dev/null 46.165.221.166

    As you can see the ifconfig.me website thinks our IP address is now 46.165.221.166. You can tell tor to start a new session triggering a new IP address for us:

    $ echo -e 'AUTHENTICATE ""\r\nsignal NEWNYM\r\nQUIT' | nc 127.0.0.1 9051
250 OK
250 OK
250 closing connection

$ torify curl ifconfig.me 2>/dev/null
37.252.121.31

    Do it again to get another different IP

    $ echo -e 'AUTHENTICATE ""\r\nsignal NEWNYM\r\nQUIT' | nc 127.0.0.1 9051
250 OK
250 OK
250 closing connection

$ torify curl ifconfig.me 2>/dev/null
91.219.237.161

  5. Downloading Pages

    $ torify curl www.google.com 2>/dev/null

  6. Browsing the internet via elinks

    $ torify elinks www.google.com

         ss of elinks

References

slm
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    Thanks for this ! But do you mind adding an example on how to test tor 9050 socks without using torify ? I'm trying to use `curl --socks5` or even socks4 or socks4a, but never worked. It just freezed. – Bertie Jun 01 '14 at 14:20
  • @slm: sorry, i finally got it working. It's just because of i have environment http_proxy of localhost:4001 after installing anon_proxy. Removing the environment variables and redoing curl --socks5 worked out fine. I just deleted my question. Thank you for your answer. – Bertie Jun 01 '14 at 15:27