Philipp Tölke wrote: > Did you look at the -D option for ssh? Yes. I use it regularly. The -D option sets up a socks server. But that is a socks proxy not an http proxy. It is awesome for socks forwarding though. I use it with the dante socksify program. Works great.
For example I have a network outside my control but with Debian machines that I maintain. The network administrator blocks all outbound access. It is a rather Draconian network. I wasn't able to gain normal access. But I do have inbound ssh access and am authorized for the activity but just not technically enabled. In order to update the Debian machines there I use the -D socks forwarding option to create a socks proxy that can be used by those machines on the restricted private network to reach Debian archives on the outside network via socksified anonymous ftp. That is how I update those machines. That is in daily use to obtain security upgrades. Works great! But I don't know how to make it operate as an http proxy. Perhaps there is a way but unknown to me. I don't want to run my local firefox under socksify. I am sure that would work but then I couldn't easily switch it on and off as needed. Therefore having an actual external http proxy works better as far as I can tell. The tinyproxy suggestion seems like the best solution for me so far. Thanks for the suggestion anyway! Bob
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