====== SSH Proxy Tunnel ======

**General Information**

You are somewhere that has a restrictive firewall/web proxy, but allows SSH.
This trick allows you to tunnel your web browser's traffic through SSH to a remote system and browse the web as if you were at that remote system.

**Checklist**
  * Distro(s): Any
  * Other: You already have a remote SSH server set-up that is accessible from the internet. (At home, hosted, etc)

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===== From the Local Computer =====

1) Open a SSH tunnel to the remote system and specify a dynamic application listening port (Example: -D 1337):
<code bash>
ssh -D 1337 user@yourhome.com
</code>

2) Edit your browser proxy settings to use the same port SSH is listening on.

__Firefox Quantom__

  * Open Menu (three horizontal lines) -> Preferences -> General -> Network Proxy -> Settings...
    * Check "Manual proxy configuration"
    * SOCKS host: localhost
    * Port: 1337
      * Select "SOCKS v4"
    * Remove "localhost" from the "No Proxy for" text box
    * Click OK
  * You may also have to set the "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" value to true (http://about:config)