(identity 'myron)

Mon, 17 Nov 2003

Myron vs the network admins [/tech]

So for whatever reason, the network admins decided to fiddle around with the proxy here at work, denying ssh access through the http proxy. Mind-boggling considering that ssh is a pretty useful tool with fairly legitimate uses. Anyway, with a little googling and creativity, I've got the connection up again and some nifty tricks up my sleeve should I ever end up in another cubicle job with a near-nazi proxy policy. IMO, proxies are for security and efficiency reasons, not for denying access to resources. Shame on those who think otherwise.

In case you're wondering, it turns out any proxy that enables ssl connections is forced to open a tunnel through the proxy so long as you are, or are pretending to be doing an ssl session. There's a nice program written for it for convenience called ProxyTunnel. The programmer also wrote up a nice paper that explains how it works. I ended up rolling my own solution just to fix some other problems I've had dealing with the damned proxy.

Meh. Myron 1, admins 0.

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