Finally my iPhone can use a local Socks Proxy + Firewall that uses an ssh tunnel between it and my server.

As everything is directly redirected to the tunnel, any iPhone ad-blocker/firewall does not work anymore, such as FirewallIP or Adbl0ck. So I have created a PAC* file that filters most of the iPhone ads (all ads from TapTap Revenge 3 for example and for the other apps I'm using), there's no more ads in my apps and when I'm surfing with Safari, so I'm quite happy.

Ads form Taptap blocked:

Admob blocked:

What's great with this system, is that if I don't want to use the tunnel over 3G, my basic PAC firewall is still working (because the firewall is set locally), and ads are even more filtered (because my ad-killer apps are now working)!

But... Now I want to do something better... You probably have noticed the blue "[?]" icon for SBSettings. I just want to filter from the server any ads directly from the source. I mean, deleting every blocks that contain an ad, so what I'll receive on my iPhone is a clean HTML source without any ad blocks.

This can be done with Privoxy or Polipo, using the best ad-list killer ever --> easylist (Use Easylist with a proxy like Polipo, bfilter or Privoxy?). These tools also provide some optimisations for you such as cached data.

So... Privoxy + PAC + SSH tunneling + iPhone = ad killer + network booster + security ?

We'll see that next time

* Example of PAC Firewall: http://www.securemecca.com/pac.html

PS: I'm not gonna post my personal PAC file right now, nor my scripts that automatically connect you to my server. But soon

How to install Perl on the Iphone:

UPDATE: Now easier (tested and working on the 4.0.1 OS)

- copy this file to your Ipod/Iphone filesystem via SFP: http://coredev.nl/cydia/coredev.pub
- execute "apt-key add coredev.pub" at the same directory
- execute "echo 'deb http://coredev.nl/cydia iphone main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/coredev.nl.list" to add the new source
- Open Cydia and install Perl.

Have fun

UPDATE: PAC + SSH tunneling + iPhone = Success ^^

UPDATE2: How To Get Socks Proxy + SSH Tunneling To Work On A Jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Hi everyone!

I'm glad to announce that it's possible to use a local socks proxy with the iPhone with Edge, 3G or Wifi

So how does it work?

iPhone + ssh -D E/3G/Wifi My_Server

I'm not going to explain everything here. For those who don't know what tunneling is, it's all explained here: ssh dynamic tunneling

What's great is that I have created a simple shell script that runs in background of my iPhone and automatically detects if the connexion is lost, or if the phone switches between Wifi/3G/Edge.

So when the script is launched, it automatically creates the ssh tunnel and recreate it if the connexion has been lost.

WIFI:

3G:

Edge:

What's great is that I can bypass almost every restricted services as the data comes from the server and not from the local FAI.

I'm going to post a How To with my script if some people are interested with this

Quick news!

Today I downloaded this video --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-LUx0LkdNk

I sent the 1080p version to my iPhone and played the same on my eeepc running MacOS 10.5.8.

Obviously we can't play such an HQ format under our eeepc 1000H, so I was thinking the iPhone can't too. But it does!

I transferred without any new compression the video file via SSH on my iPhone, and then played it with vlc4iphone. The video rendering is quite great, and I wasn't able to notice any lags.

I admit this is quite stupid to play 1080p videos on such a device xD, but it was for testing purpose only