[ale] best terminal-based browsers?

[John Wells]

Jason,

Wow.  I had no idea.  That is certainly sweet!

However, following your directions I only get disconnected with
"Connection closed by foreign host" if I telnet localhost 1080 and
"Document contained no data" if I set proxy to socks4 in mozilla.  Is
there anything on my home box I need to enable?  I'll have to play around
with it to see if I can get it working.  If so, I'll be set!

It never fails to amaze me at how much ssh can do.  Seems I learn
something new about it every week!

John


However, following your instructions, I get Jason Day said:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:06:35AM -0500, John Wells wrote:
>> For web pages my company doesn't need to know I surf
>> (computerjobs.com, etc.) I typically ssh to my home machine and surf
>> with lynx or mozilla over X.  Mozilla is extremely slow on the BS
>> upstream, and lynx is sometimes very difficult to use.
>
> For a completely different approach, you could use ssh's dynamic port
> forwarding.  I used ssh for years before I realized you could do this.
> When you ssh to your box, give ssh the -D option and specify a port,
> e.g.:
>   ssh -D 1080 my.box.com
>
> This will turn your ssh session into a SOCKS v4 server.  Then, just tell
> your web browser to use SOCKS v4 on localhost (and specify the port if
> you don't use 1080).  Then you could surf from your work box with
> anonymity.
>
> HTH,
> Jason
>
> P.S.
> This all assumes OpenSSH.  I haven't used commercial ssh in a while, so
> I don't know if it has this feature or not.
> --
> Jason Day                                       jasonday at
> http://jasonday.home.att.net                    worldnet dot att dot net
>
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