No, I really meant SSH. I'm using Putty from work to my home linux box. Michael
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Neto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:57 PM To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-users] New to Squid and Linux I think you have the wrong acronym. Do you really want a SSL connection as in a "https" connection? In reading this thread you keep typing SSH, but do you really need to use is SSL. Tim ----------------------------------------------------------- Timothy E. Neto Computer Systems Engineer Komatsu Canada Limited Ph#: 905-625-6292 x265 1725B Sismet Road Fax: 905-625-6348 Mississauga, Canada E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L4W 1P9 ----------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to use SSH to tunnel my traffic to the machine that is > running squid. The machines are not on the same network. > > Michael > > Quoting Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Thursday 03 August 2006 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Now it works from the local machine that is actually running squid, >>> but when I try to SSH using Putty into the squid host I get nothing. I >>> am forwarding port 3128 with Putty and setting the brower to use >>> localhost:3128 for proxy. >> >> Just point your browser to the proxy server on port 3128. SSH is not >> needed. >> >>> Maybe I'm understanding this wrong but I thought if I used SSH to >>> connect to the squid host it would appear as a local connection and >>> the acl for localhost for work. >> >> SSH supports port forwarding. But that's surely not the normal mode of >> operation and proxy surfing. >> >> I hope it's clear that Squid is a HTTP proxy which is not at all >> connected >> to SSH. >> >> Christoph >> > > > >