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Can you use Firefox as a SSH tunnel?
If you have the ability to SSH into a remote machine you also have the ability to direct your web browser’s traffic through SSH to that machine. This can be quite handy for browsing the (remote) local network without opening a HTTP port on the firewall. First, install Putty and Firefox. Putty can be found here and Firefox here.
How to secure web browsing on a Mac?
If you cannot make changes to your Mac’s network settings, you can still use Firefox to secure your web browsing traffic. With this method, only traffic in Firefox is routed through the proxy service, all other traffic is routed normally. From the hamburger menu (the menu item that looks like 3 parallel lines), select Preferences.
Can a Mac send traffic through a SSH tunnel?
Now you need to set up the SOCKS proxy so that your Mac routes traffic through your remote server instead. Until you complete this step, your traffic is not secure. The best way to use the SSH tunnel is to configure MacOS to send most/all traffic through it. Follow these steps to configure your system.
How to tunnel the web with Firefox and putty?
You should see a window like this: Now choose “Manual proxy configuration” and enter localhost in SOCKS Host, and 2048 in the corresponding Port field like so: Click OK then again on the previous screen, open your Putty connection and the next URL you enter should be tunneled through to your remote server!
How to launch Firefox on remote server using SSH?
In the example above, you are connecting via SSH onto [email protected], and you are interested on a web frontend exposed at internal.example.com:8080. This remote IP:port will be exposed locally at 127.0.0.1:18080.
How to run a SSH tunnel with putty?
Once you’ve downloaded Putty, open it and you should see a screen like this: Enter in the remote computer’s IP address and SSH port number (usually 22 unless you changed it) and test the connection to make sure you can log in. If that works, disconnect and go to Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels like so: then change the selection from Local to Dynamic.