Yes, something like:
myworkbox> ssh -L 8080:localhost:8001 myhomebox.net on your work machine. Log in and leave the shell open. Set Netscape proxy to "myworkbox:8080". Assumes proxy at home is on localhost (same machine as running sshd) and listening on port 8001. Modify to your setup. HTH, Karl On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, "Mansur, Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure someone has run into this problem, so hopefully someone will > have a good solution. The http proxy server where I work is absolutely > terrible. Half the time it reports that the page timed out, and most of > the time I have to go to the page twice to get it to load. I'm not in a > position to change the software or the speed of the proxy server, and > port 80 is closed inside and out of the corporation. > > So, here's one solution I thought of. Perhaps I could have a my own > proxy server, which when asked for a page, would go over port 22 (the > ssh port) to my home computer. My home computer would then load the > page, send it back over the ssh connection to my proxy, and then the > proxy would give the page to me. This would definitely be faster, more > reliable, and less annoying then my company's proxy server, if it's > possible. > > Does anyone know if something like this is possible? Are there any > other solutions? ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
