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Tunneling Firefox traffic over SSH
Published January 24th, 2008 in Browser Security, Firefox
Often I tunnel my web traffic through a SSH connection to a remote machine to have my HTTP and HTTPs connections originate from it. I do this for many reasons, the most common being that
* I don’t trust the network I’m on so I don’t want to send my unencrypted HTTP traffic through it or that
* there is a firewall that prevents me from getting from my laptop to a given server. For example, I can only get to most of the internal Google web servers from an IP address inside Google’s network. This post explains how I do it. Basically, I establish an SSH connection with certain parameters that allow me to tunnel traffic through it and then configure Firefox to use the tunnel and to never do DNS lookups by itself. Tunneling Firefox traffic over SSH
