[lug] ssh and Konqueror

[dan radom]

you don't need to use port 80 locally.  a high port like 8080 and configure your browser to use a proxy for http where the proxy is localhost and the port is 8080.

dan


* David (dajo at frii.com) wrote:
> > ssh -L 80:localhost:<portnumber> <webserver>
> > 
> > Then with your local browser, open http://localhost
> 
> 
> > to ssh tunnel say localhost port 8080 foo.bar.com port 80 you would...
> > 
> > ssh -L8080:foo.bar.com:80 username at foo.bar.com for example.  i'm not sure if this is entirely necessary though.
> 
> How interesting!  You guys are good.
> 
> ssh  -L 80:<remotemachine>:<remoteport>  me@<remotemachine>
> and
> http://localhost/ in the browser did indeed work - to a point.
> 
> The point was the homepage of the website.  However, I was unable to go
> beyond the hoempage.  Thus, mousing over a selection gave me an address
> http://<remotemachine>:<remoteport>/Selection, clicking on that gave
> me a "could not connect to host <remotemachine> (port <remoteport>)"
> message, which you might expect.  But I got the same result by using
> http://localhost/Selection.
> 
> I needed to be root to make the connection; I was able to login as myself;
> and I tried the browser both as root and myself, with the same result.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Why do I need to use port 80 at my end?
> 
> dajo
> 
> 
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