[infowarrior]

Hello all -

Has anyone set up Jaguar 10.2 server to serve as a web proxy that uses ssh or ssl?

Eg, at some conferences, we fire up sniffers to see who's doing what -- and then find the person and joke with them.

I want to be able to browse the web from the conference room but have my session encrypted so I can "browse privately" so to speak.

I'm figuring to use 10.2 server's web proxy feature to be my proxy server for my browser, and then simply have port forwarding/listening for http traffic on 22 (ssh).

Does that sound logical, or am I making this harder for myself (again?)

thx

[Arkham_c]

Any solution will require you to have a server somewhere that you can run the proxy on. Assuming you have that, you can run this proxy as a CGI:

http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/

It works great, and is easy to use.

Once you have that set up in your cgi-bin, just create an SSH tunnel the the remote machine's port 80. For example, if you wanted to proxy to a machine 10.0.0.1, you'd do this:

Code:

ssh -f -g -L 8080:127.0.0.1:80 10.0.0.1 " while true ; do sleep 100; done"

This will proxy port 80 on 10.0.0.1 to your local machine (127.0.0.1), port 8080. You'll be asked for your remote machine password.

Once it has completed successfully, just go to:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi

And you'll be proxying through an SSH tunnel via the remote machine. Neat, eh?

(BTW, the format of this command assumes bash as your shell on the remote host -- if not, adjust accordingly)