Evaggelos Balaskas - System Engineer

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel

Mar

2012

Xmarks does not work for most proxy servers

Posted by ebal at 10:31:19 in planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin

Unfortunately thats a known fact by xmarks it self.

Is there a work around ?

The disable proxy suggestion isnt a solution, especially if you cant access internet directly.

In my research for solution and gazillions test i think i’ve figured it out.

Chain your proxy
use:
```
export -p LD_PRELOAD=libproxychains.so
```
before running firefox (or alter firefox startup script)

works even with an http proxy!

b. Using a socks proxy.

Using a socks proxy, xmarks can connect to your custom (or not) webdav server and sync!

So if you arent using an http proxy (directly), xmarks will sync.