I have an externally hosted CentOS 5 server (external.example.com) that I want to use as a relay/proxy for my local web requests. So basically, if I load google.com on my local computer I'd like for the request to appear to Google as if it was coming from external.example.com instead of local.example.com.
I believe what I need is to setup the external server as a proxy and then configure my browser to use it as a such when browsing. Is this correct? If not what is the solution I should aim for?
I've been looking at applications like Squid, Tor or HAProxy. Would any of these work for this task?
Edit: I followed these tutorials to install Squid on CentOS 5:
Best Answer
Squid is what you want. Configure it to allow requests from whatever IP address you're using, and just configure your local machine to use it as it's HTTP proxy.
For added security (both from abuse and transport layer observation), install OpenVPN at both ends and configure squid to only allow requests from the VPN IP. That's how I do it.