Re: Anyone got SSH over HTTP working?

[Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net>]

> I'm going to be working in a school which sits behind a nasty
> firewall: it will not allow outbound SSH traffic.  (And it appears
> that they are filtering based on protocol, not only on port number :/ )
> 
> I'd like to be able to ssh to my home machine, and I can use putty as
> a terminal program, but only if I could teach it to use an HTTP
> protocol.  Yuck.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas if this is feasible?  Or another idea for
> how to do this?

Have you tried running your ssh server on port 443?  That's normally
used for https, which means that firewalls generally will let it pass,
_and_ because it's an encrypted protocol, application filters may give
up on trying to filter it.  I've been using this setup successfully for
years.