Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

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Post by pierremenard » Thu, May 08, 2025, 10:19 PM UTC

Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser
val.packett.cool

Re: Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

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Post by amarshall » Fri, May 09, 2025, 1:35 AM UTC

Unfortunately page is completely blank (iOS Safari)

Re: Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

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Post by CGamesPlay » Fri, May 09, 2025, 1:39 AM UTC

The project being discussed in this post is https://codeberg.org/valpackett/podfox#podfox

You can actually use Traefik to do something similar using its Docker service discovery. Instead of being a SOCKS proxy, Traefik is a reverse proxy, and you can combine with `lvh.me` which resolves all subdomains to localhost. I don't use this technique any more, but a functional example command can be seen here: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/c49e2b4ddd0fe591...

Re: Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

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Post by conception » Fri, May 09, 2025, 1:52 AM UTC

amarshall wrote: post #2

Unfortunately page is completely blank (iOS Safari)

Turn off your content blockers? Comes up fine for me. Or maybe add some? ;)

Re: Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

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Post by wingmanjd » Fri, May 09, 2025, 2:18 AM UTC

amarshall wrote: post #2

Unfortunately page is completely blank (iOS Safari)

Blank for me too (Windows Firefox), ublock off.

Re: Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

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Post by prmoustache » Fri, May 09, 2025, 5:24 AM UTC

conception wrote: post #4

amarshall wrote: post #2

Unfortunately page is completely blank (iOS Safari)

Turn off your content blockers? Comes up fine for me. Or maybe add some? ;)

I have firefox and content blockers and it works fine for me. On Linux.

Maybe they simply banned some user agents commonly used by IA scrapers.

Re: Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

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Post by sureglymop » Fri, May 09, 2025, 5:35 AM UTC

With regular docker or podman it was always easy and useful to forward a containers port over ssh. Does anyone know how to just as easily do that (i.e. with a single command) for rootless podman?

Re: Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

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Post by jbverschoor » Fri, May 09, 2025, 6:13 AM UTC

I dunno. I just use orbstack and everything works. Containers have their own IP, dns, and https certificates

Re: Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Fri, May 09, 2025, 6:22 AM UTC

sureglymop wrote: post #7

With regular docker or podman it was always easy and useful to forward a containers port over ssh. Does anyone know how to just as easily do that (i.e. with a single command) for rootless podman?

With or without binding a host port? With a host port it should Just Work, without... I'm not sure why it wouldn't route just as well, actually; I don't think `ssh -L` acts differently than anything else, does it? Actually let me back up: What are you doing, and what does it currently do with podman?

Re: Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

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Post by sureglymop » Fri, May 09, 2025, 6:32 AM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #9

sureglymop wrote: post #7

With regular docker or podman it was always easy and useful to forward a containers port over ssh. Does anyone know how to just as easily do that (i.e. with a single command) for rootless podman?

With or without binding a host port? With a host port it should Just Work, without... I'm not sure why it wouldn't route just as well, actually; I don't think `ssh -L` acts differently than anything else, does it? Actually let me back up: What are you doing, and what does it currently do with podman?

Without binding a host port. I have a remote server where my containers run and want to forward their ports directly to my local machine without binding to a host port there. That of course works with a regular bridge but not with rootless containers.