Secure http traffic

zark · n00b Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 74 Location: Belgium

Hello

basically my issue is this, i roam a lot with my laptop for work.

Piggybacking on wifi connections is quite frequent. Off course for obvious reasons, i'd rather have my traffic crypted.

I'm already using imap4ssl on my server to have all my mail crypted.

but, most websites being in http, makes an issue.
I've already got an tinyproxy running on my server, that i basically use to have the same "client ip" everywhere i go.

i'd like to find an easy way to have all the traffic going from my laptop to my server in ssl or something similar.

i don't really know where to start looking, the internet so vast, and "bad" keywords throwing so many results that have notthing to do with my issue.

i imagine the solution would be a localhost proxy configured in FireFox, and that proxy forwards thru an encrypted pipe to my server that will do all the proxy fetching

arndawg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 97

What about setting up OpenVPN on your server? And just use this when you are out of office.

skunk · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:02 pm Post subject:

make a ssh tunnel to your server's tiniproxy port eg:
ssh -fCNL 8080:localhost:8080 <your_server_ip>
then configure your browser to listen on localhost:8080

zark · n00b Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 74 Location: Belgium

thank you skunk !!!

i had heard of ssh tunneling, but never tryed it.

easiest solution to setup and it's perfect !

i even managed to set it up on a windows machine using putty