Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

[Timo Boettcher <spida@spida.net>]

Hi!

* Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Philipp Tölke wrote:
> > Did you look at the -D option for ssh?
> 
> But I don't know how to make it operate as an http proxy.  Perhaps
> there is a way but unknown to me.  I don't want to run my local
> firefox under socksify.  I am sure that would work but then I couldn't
> easily switch it on and off as needed.  Therefore having an actual
> external http proxy works better as far as I can tell.
What about running privoxy over an ssh -D socks-proxy?

Timo