discuss: HOWTO idea: Secure Web Gateway Setup On Linux
Subject:
Re: HOWTO idea: Secure Web Gateway Setup On Linux
From:
John Peter Tapsell ####@####.####
Date:
30 Aug 2001 23:34:27 -0000
Message-Id: <01083100340400.00766@eng026>
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Anton Chuvakin wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have started designing a HOWTO about secure Linux web gateway.
>
> Basically, the idea is very simple and I think VERY much needed. You have
> a box at home on a fast connection with squid and SSH. If you want to
> browse the web and it is not allowed/not advisable/paranoia is
> finally getting to you connect from another location via ssh port forward
> to a squid port and then surf through ssh and squid. No urls seen, no web
> content. Client can be UNIX and Windows (will also be described).
>
> Are you already excited?
So for being dumb... I still don't get ;)
I get having a web proxy
But i don't get how you are get this to work through an ssh tunnel
btw, If you use ssl, that sends the URL plain text right?
>
> Please direct all feedback to ####@####.#### since I am about to
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>
> Regards,
> --
> Anton A. Chuvakin, Ph.D.
> === You either succeed or learn! ===
> http://www.chuvakin.org
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>
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