shadowsocks
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shadowsocks is a lightweight tunnel proxy which can help you get through firewalls

usage
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First, make sure you have Python 2.6 or 2.7.

    $ python --version
    Python 2.6.8

Then edit `config.json`, change the following values:

    server          your server ip or hostname
    server_port     server port
    local_port      local port
    password        a password used to encrypt transfer

Put all the files on your server. Run `python server.py` on your server. To run it in the background, run `nohup python server.py > log &`.

Put all the files on your client machine. Run `python local.py` on your client machine.

Change proxy settings of your browser into

    SOCKS5 127.0.0.1:local_port

advanced
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You can use args to override settings from `config.json`.

    python local.py -s server_name -p server_port -l local_port -k password
    python server.py -p server_port -k password