Re: Dynamic (-D) proxy using OpenSSH Cygwin.. not working..

In comp.security.ssh Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
In comp.security.ssh Andrew Schulman <andrex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
ssh -vv -D 8080 user@xxxxxxxx
[snip]
I set both IE and Firefox to use this proxy : 127.0.0.1:8080 for all
protocols.

The SSH dynamic proxy is a SOCKS proxy, not an HTTP proxy. Different
protocol. Did you tell Firefox and IE that you were using a SOCKS proxy?

Hi Richard!

Ops, sorry! Seems I made a little mistake in the heat of the
moment...;-)

Iirc, IE being the utter piece of crap it is, it doesn't work
probably with a SOCKS proxy at all. Though firefox, mozilla and
others just work fine. ;)

Perhaps the OP would like to use "-L"? If there is a proxy or one
can be reached on the other side, this should do fine, if you
aren't using IE of course. It remains unknown to me why people use
this browser at all?


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