Hello, I have a question but I think the easiest way to ask this type of question is to explain what I want to do:
I have a computer at home, and one at the office. I want to surf on an SSL secure site (https) from my home computer but I want to bounce it (if that is the propper term) off of the computer at the office. The question is how can I do this? What programs are available (preferably small, compact command line utilities) right now that I can freely download and set up on the office machine for this task? Furthermore I would massively appreciate a brief explanition from one of the experts on this forumn how to set this up once I DO have the proper utility for this task!
I've heard of some tools like "Socks2HTTP" and "Bouncer". Would any of these tools fit the bill or am I just walking around in circles? Also, I understand that I could just use an SSL capable Proxy for this task but again, clueless. How would (as a last resort) I go about finding (free) these type of proxies? Once I find them, what whould I look for and how could I tell if they support SSL? How would I set up my browser to use one of these SSL Proxies?
Thanks guys I would really appreciate some professional help.. All TCP/IP gurus welcome to reply =).
Question About SSL Tunneling
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Boston_Bob
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Try OpenSSH
http://www.networksimplicity.com
This guy has ported OpenSSH to Win32 (Im assuming thats what you are using at work, if not SSH is native to most linux, *nix environments and will work on MAC OS X). You can set up the server at work and use any SSH client you like on your home machine, including a simple command line tool to do this "bouncing" as you are calling it. SSH calls it port tunneling. The other bonus of SSH is that it gives you command line access to the workstation at work and can act as a full blown proxy if you like. It can be pretty transparent if you use the key authentication instead of a password. Using the comand line on Win2K is somthing like this:
start /B ssh -l "username" "destination host" "options for port tunneling or proxy"
This will start it up in the background, you'll never see the prompt box and you will be able to connect to local ports on your home machine and have the connection bounce off your work machine before going to its destination.
Hope this helps, this is only one way to do it, you could use several programs that provide the same or similar functionality, you mentioned some in your post, but I've always been partial to SSH. That way I can choose the encryption algorithm, compression and so forth.
This guy has ported OpenSSH to Win32 (Im assuming thats what you are using at work, if not SSH is native to most linux, *nix environments and will work on MAC OS X). You can set up the server at work and use any SSH client you like on your home machine, including a simple command line tool to do this "bouncing" as you are calling it. SSH calls it port tunneling. The other bonus of SSH is that it gives you command line access to the workstation at work and can act as a full blown proxy if you like. It can be pretty transparent if you use the key authentication instead of a password. Using the comand line on Win2K is somthing like this:
start /B ssh -l "username" "destination host" "options for port tunneling or proxy"
This will start it up in the background, you'll never see the prompt box and you will be able to connect to local ports on your home machine and have the connection bounce off your work machine before going to its destination.
Hope this helps, this is only one way to do it, you could use several programs that provide the same or similar functionality, you mentioned some in your post, but I've always been partial to SSH. That way I can choose the encryption algorithm, compression and so forth.
me fail english?....that's unpossible!