Forwarding http for a specific host through a firewall via ssh

From: Allan Wittkopf (wittkopf@cecm.sfu.ca)
Date: 02/25/02 

From: Allan Wittkopf <wittkopf@cecm.sfu.ca>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:48:55 GMT

I am trying to connect to my company through ssh, and access a
web-application. I have succeessfully done this with ssh for simple
web pages, but unfortunately I seem to run into problems for the web
applications.

My setup is basically this:

1) Set up a tunnel, to map localhost:1617 through the firewall port
2000, then to the specific machine webserv:80.

2) I then connect to localhost:1617 with netscape, opening up the
specific location I need.

What happens is that the process starts up, then hangs at some point
in the loading.

As near as I can figure, what is happenning is that even though I have
port 1617 on localhost set up to look at the right thing, the silly
web application queries:

http://webserv/ file>

which kills me.

So what I need is a way to tell netscape that any requests for
webserv:80 need to instead go to localhost:1617

Any suggestions?

- Allan

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