i want to access urls which are only accessable internally to a company via
ssh.
when i worked at deja.com, i did this (by recommendation from a senior
admin):
ssh -L 8888:otto:23 -l tcarlile otto
where otto was their special box that allowed this kind of stuff.
one that connection was made i could specify localhost:8888 as a
proxy in my browser and proceed to view and use internal urls.
so, of course, this doesn't work where i work now. same syntax,
except now i'm using build2 and port 22. so:
ssh -L 8888:build2:22 -l tcarlile build2
when i point my browser (with the proxy settings) to any url i get
some bogus message that says something like "SSH version ..."
some people i've talked to say it's impossible, but i've seen it done.
at deja we used the latest 1.x version of ssh, now i'm using the
latest ssh 2.x, so therein could be the problem. who knows
those deja dudes could have very well hacked ssh to do this.
someone please tell me i have not gone mad.
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