[Wylug-help] SSH over HTTP/HTTPS (Corkscrew?)

[Steve King]

Hi

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Dave Fisher wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone here got experience of a reliable, easily configurable,
> method of establishing ssh/scp connections from inside a heavily
> firewalled network?
>
> Googling brings up lots of recommendations for corkscrew  ... any
> alternative viewpoints here?
>
> The client looks simple to use and configure, but:
>
>   1. The homepage http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/ says that it only
>      does 'basic authentication'.
>
>   2. I can't find much useful about how to configure a proxy server for
>      it to use.
>
> I could probably switch from 'Digest authentication' to 'basic
> authentication' (assuming that means .htaccess?) on one of my home
> webservers, but I'm a bit stuck on the proxy issue.
>
> What are the pros and cons of using squid rather than apache as the
> proxy?
>
> Can anyone point me to useful docs on configuring either for this
> purpose?
>

Our school network is heavily firewalled, no external IP address in the school
at all, and only outbound http(s) traffic is permitted.

I use HTS http tunnel  running on my home computer to let me ssh to it.  Every
so often the server needs a restart, but I've made a cgi page on my box to let
me do that remotely.

If this seems like the sort of thing you want mail me back.  A quick google
has found http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel/faq.html  but that's not
the site I used when I set it up.

Steve