text browser with tables and javascript support

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 9 20:58:50 UTC 2004


On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 03:39:56PM -0500, Taavi Burns wrote:
> No need to get VNC into the picture.  Just use an SSH tunnel to punch a hole
> from your current workstation directly through to your intranet.
> Given the setup that I have:
> internet <--> router <--> linux box
> 
> Incoming port 22 goes straight from the internet to the linux box.  Then one
> just inserts the appropriate domain names/IP addresses:
> ssh -L 8080:routerinternalip:80 routerextenralip
> start http://localhost:8080
> 
> PuTTY is quite capable of SSH tunnelling as well; there's no need to
> go installing
> OpenSSH on your windows box.
> 
> I've done something like this, though I usually just start up a copy
> of squid on my
> linux box at home and then tunnel to that.  This has the added advantage of
> encrypting all of your web traffic, which can be particularly useful
> when on unencrypted
> wireless connections or other hostile environments (some offices come to mind).

For some reason using port forwarding never worked with any browser I
had handy for my parents linksys.  Neither did running mozilla on a
machine local to the linksys forwarding through ssh X forwarding.  So
far only IE has worked from one machine to that stupid box.

Lennart Sorensen
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