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Re: Connect browser via ssh tunnel to local server ?
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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