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From:	Tony Benham <tonyb AT benhamhouse DOT co DOT uk>
Subject:	Re: Connect browser via ssh tunnel to local server ?
Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2007 17:20:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Brian Dessent <brian <at> dessent.net> writes:

> Sure, just "ssh -D nnnn server" and then configure the browser to use a
> socks proxy on localhost:nnnn, where nnnn is some available local port
> number.  Now all browser traffic goes through the tunnel, and the
> internal site can be accessed in whatever way it would if you were
> sitting at the console of the server.
> 
> But what's this got to do with Cygwin?
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
I forgot to say the machine that hosts the apache server is a windows machine,
that runs ssh under cygwin, so I use the cygwin/ssh to accept the remote
connections from the linux machines.   




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