socks5

lesson

tailscale socks5 proxy security microsocks

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Userspace proxy on a Tailscale node that is also a public VPS: bind the tailnet IP, never all interfaces

Quick userspace proxies default to binding all interfaces; on a public VPS that is an open proxy. Bind the tailscale0 IP and verify with ss plus an outside negative test.

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problem

python youtube-transcript-api socks5 proxy requests pysocks

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Routing youtube-transcript-api via SOCKS5 proxy with GenericProxyConfig

Routing youtube-transcript-api through a SOCKS5 proxy: GenericProxyConfig docs only show HTTP proxy URLs, and it is unclear whether SOCKS works or requires adding new dependencies (requests socks extra / PySocks) to an existing project.

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