Ssh – How to set up squid to act as a tunneling proxy to expose a VPN or SSH tunnel

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I'd like to set up a tunneling proxy accessible by URL–so, to access bar.com through the tunneling proxy, you'd go to foo.com/bar.com and continue to browse bar.com transparently from there. I can either set up an SSH tunnel or a VPN connection that I'd like to expose. How can I set up squid (or another proxy server) to route requests through an SSH/VPN connection like this?

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First, Setup your ssh tunnel

ssh you@yourproxysever -L8080:localhost:8080

Leave this connection running, this assumes that your proxy server is listening on port 8080.

Second, Setup your web browser to use localhost:8080 as its proxy server

The ssh tunnel will forward packets to your proxy server over ssh.

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I do something similar. I do it using two pieces:

$ cat bin/openproxy
#!/bin/bash
ssh -C -o ServerAliveInterval=150 -L 3128:proxy:3128 gateway.company.com

Then in Firefox, I use FoxyProxy to use localhost:3128 as a proxy for machines in *.company.com.

This works for pretty much everything that I need.

Is this what you're trying to do?

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-D option allocates a socket to listen on port 8080. So, make sure that you enter the proxy info into SOCKS Host, not HTTP Proxy.

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