HTTP tunnelling over ssh June 11, 2009
It is very easy to tunnel your web traffic over ssh using Firefox and the FoxyProxy plugin. Create your SSH tunnel by executing this command (where “port” is any random port that is not used):
ssh -fND localhost:port al1us.net
“f” key tells SSH to go into the background. If you want to quit later, just kill the process or otherwise don’t use the “f” key.
On the bottom right conrer of the firefox click the FoxyProxy icon with the rght mouse button and go to “Options”, write proxy name, choose SOCKS proxy and in the host field enter “localhost” and the port number your tunnel is running on, save it.
If you want to tunnel also all the DNS queries, in the Firefox address bar write “about:config” and change the key “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” to true. Voila!