I gess you need somehow to get to your personal proxy because the company proxy blocks URL you want to go to.
Even a very resctrictive WWW proxy usually allows the CONNECT method, which a need for HTTPS to work. If you can access an HTTPS URL, it means your proxy allows CONNECT (or HTTPS port 443 is not blocked by your company firewall).
I usually use the CONNECT method and an SSH tunnel to get to the net through a resctrictive company proxy.
So I open an SSH connection to my Linux server where I have my http proxy (e.g. tinyproxy for Linux is sufficient for this) and within this SSH connection I redirect a local port (the box I'm working at at work) to this proxy, e.g. localhost:3128 -> myserver:3128
Then you just configure your Web-browser to use localhost:3128 as an http-proxy and that is it. Your http traffic goes throgh the ssh tunnel to your remote proxy.
Unfortunately, I am not sitting behind a proxy at the moment so I don't have more details to share.
I just googled and I believe this is what I used a year ago: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ssh-http-proxy-connect+1 Putty (ssh client for Win) also support HTTP proxy and connect.
Some restrictive company proxies let you make a CONNECT to the 443 port only (port dedicated for HTTPS). In such a case you need to modify the ssh daemon at your remote box you want to connect to so it listen at port 443.
There is also another possibility - an HTTP tunnel solution. Search google for "HTTP tunnel".
Regards, Marji
Perez, Dennys (GE Healthcare, non-ge) wrote:
Hi,
I have squid setup, and I was wondering if I could pass a URL to squid
directly from the browser. The reason is that @ work, all ports are
blocked, and only http is open. I could use
http://mysquid.com:3128+http://website.com if possible, but I always get
an error from my proxy server that the address is incorrect (it doesn't
read the http part after the port#) Is there another way to use this?
Adding the server and port to the browser connection options won't work,
since I need to go through the company's proxy to even get out to the
'net. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks
D
