http proxy over ssh, not socks

Question

The question is simple, but the answer is not :

ssh -D 8080 user@host

or

ssh -gCNf -D 8080 user@host

or

wathever with -D #

I need a kind of proxy that i can use with http_proxy variable, in an embedded device that doesn't support SOCKS.

What should i do?

i've done it with ssh a while back.. vnc through ssh. but you could I suppose use squid(an http proxy) through ssh. can't recall how i did it though at the moment. it's not -D 'cos (as you know -and better than me) -D is SOCKS if I recall.
@ngen: No. -D specifies a port to open the tunnel on, not the port to connect to. (Even the connection port is specified as -p port, not :port, for compatibility reasons.)

grawity · Answer 1 · 2011-05-06 15:02:36Z

Establish the tunnel normally, then start a HTTP proxy that supports using a SOCKS upstream, such as Polipo or Privoxy. Point your program to that proxy on localhost.

Example Polipo configuration:
```
proxyAddress = "::1"
proxyPort = 8118
socksParentProxy = "localhost:8080"
socksProxyType = socks5
```
Run your program inside the tsocks wrapper, which proxies all connections transparently.
As others suggested, set up a HTTP proxy on your server, then access it over SSH using ssh -L.

lesmana · Answer 2 · 2011-05-06 15:01:50Z

ssh -L 8080:localhost:12345 user@host

This will open port 8080 on the local machine, and forward all data to port 12345 on localhost, as seen from the remote machine.

ceving · Answer 3 · 2011-05-06 15:02:16Z

Every -D results into a SOCKS server. If your client can not handle SOCKS forget -D.

You must run a HTTP-Proxy on the remote host and forward with -L:

ssh -f -N -n -L8080:127.0.0.1:8080 host

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