On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:53:34PM -0600, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> If you have sshd running on your home box, you can set up a dynamic proxy
> using ssh in 30 seconds or less. Client machine runs a SOCKS proxy over
> SSH, connects to box at home. Web browser on client is configured to use
> a SOCKS proxy of localhost:<port>. That will tunnel all web traffic
> through your SSH connection and out over your box at home. Works great.
>
> Much easier and lightweight than squid imo. The one caveat is that
> intranet sites are inaccessible unless you take the time to set up local
> bypass rules in your web browser of choice.
Such rules are trivial and seemless to setup using the FoxyProxy Firefox
add-on:
http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/
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Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu
UNIX System Administrator,
University of Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute http://www.msi.umn.edu