{"id":2111,"date":"2015-07-04T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T08:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:37","slug":"tunneling-browser-traffic-through-an-ssh-jumpbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"Tunneling browser traffic through an ssh jumpbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

It can be very handy sometimes to tunnel your browser’s traffic through a secure channel, for example when you are on an insecure or unknown network like a hotel, cafe or airport etc.<\/p>\n

To open up a SOCKS proxy on port 8080, run<\/p>\n

\r\nssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 your-user@example.com\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nTo configure Firefox to use the proxy go to Edit → Preferences → Advanced → Network → Settings<\/b> and enable ‘Manual proxy configuration’\n<\/p>\n
 \"Edit <\/a>
Enable SOCKS proxy in Edit → Preferences → Advanced → Network → Settings<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n
You can also tunnel Firefox’s DNS queries through the SOCKS proxy by enabling the ‘Remote DNS’ checkbox.<\/p>\n
For chrome, you can use the settings dialog quite similar to the Firefox example above, but you can also specify the proxy through the command line with the SOCKS_SERVER<\/code> environment variable. To spawn a new, temporary chrome session with the SOCKS proxy configured, run<\/p>\n
\r\nSOCKS_SERVER=localhost:8080 google-chrome --user-data-dir=\/tmp\/chrome $1\r\n<\/pre>\n
Note that’s it’s a bit more tricky to tell chrome not to rely on local DNS queries. For details have a look at the chromium documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Resources:
\nhttps:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=1536126<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It can be very handy sometimes to tunnel your browser’s traffic through a secure channel, for example when you are on an insecure or unknown network like a hotel, cafe or airport etc. To open up a SOCKS proxy on port 8080, run ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 your-user@example.com To configure Firefox to use the proxy go to Edit → Preferences… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,29,15],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chrome","tag-firefox","tag-ssh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}