Re: [OCLUG-Tech] privoxy or similar tunnel?

2010-12-27 Thread Prof. John C Nash
Many thanks to all for replies. Stephen's suggestion proved the ticket, given my setup. To provide the steps in case others interested: 1) get the connection going by opening a terminal and issuing ssh -D 1080 (me)@(myserver).ca We use ssh keys already on this machine for doing cron-based backu

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] privoxy or similar tunnel?

2010-12-27 Thread Stephen Gregory
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 08:26:57PM -0500, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > I've a server in Canada and am thinking of trying privoxy or similar > tunnel. Does anyone have experience or advice on use of privoxy or > similar tools? If you are going to setup an internet accessible web proxy you need one t

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] privoxy or similar tunnel?

2010-12-27 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > Hi, > > My wife wants to view some TVO transmissions over the Net while in the USA, > but gets a > message that she is in the USA and content is only for Canada. I've a server > in Canada and > am thinking of trying privoxy or similar t