Re: How to tunnel http over ssh?

From: Andrew Schulman (andrex_at_deadspam.com)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:47:44 -0500

> If you want to just generally browse the web through an encrypted
> tunnel, you can set up PuTTY as a local SOCKS server: in the connection
> configuration dialog, go to Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels. Under "Add
> new forwarded port", enter e.g. port 1080, choose Dynamic, and click
> Add. Save your new connection and restart it.

Also, once you've set up PuTTY to act as a SOCKS server as above, you
can tunnel traffic from some other network applications too, by running
them from within a "SOCKSifier" such as SocksCap. IIRC this only works
for TCP traffic.

Good luck,
Andrew. 

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