Circumventing firewalls with HTTPS traffic
Firewalls that only allow standard ports (such as HTTP, HTTPS) can be easily circumvented by proxying all traffic trough port 443, using an external VPS. Here’s a minimal setup to obtain so with proxytunnel: Apache2: [...] ProxyRequests On AllowConnect 22 <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Deny from all </Proxy> <Proxy 127.0.0.1> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> [...] Local SSH configuration: Host vps_proxy ProxyCommand proxytunnel -q -E -p VPS_IP:443 -d 127.0.0.1:22 -z DynamicForward 1080 ServerAliveInterval 60 Port 443 Set up local SOCKS5 proxy:...