Re: Anyone got SSH over HTTP working?
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:55:03PM -0400, Darryl Clarke wrote:
> On 7/12/05, Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I've done this. (in essance)
>
> I have a squid proxy at home running on port 80, it is configured to
> allow HTTPS/CONNECT requests from IPs that I provide.
>
> Using that, I can use putty's proxy settings to connect using an
> HTTPS/CONNECT pipe.
>
> Basically when Putty connects, any firewall will assume it's a regular
> https request and in most cases, they're allowed.
Cool, thanks!
Julian
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