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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding gzip compression to a connection using nc Post 302604048 by Corona688 on Friday 2nd of March 2012 04:28:39 PM
Old 03-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by haggismn
The assumption is that the connection the program is being used on is heavily firewalled.
So, port 23 is blocked, but port 8080 isn't?

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In such a case, an http connection may be the only kind that works.
...Oh, I see.

Since the protocol you're running over port 80 is most blatantly not going to be HTTP anyway, why not run an ssh server on port 80 or 443 instead of netcat? You can do that.

Then just
Code:
ssh -p 80 username@host -L 3333:hostname:8080

 

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SSH-ARGV0(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					      SSH-ARGV0(1)

NAME
ssh-argv0 -- replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling SYNOPSIS
hostname | user@hostname [-l login_name] [command] hostname | user@hostname [-afgknqstvxACNTX1246] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-e escape_char] [-i identity_file] [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-o option] [-p port] [-F configfile] [-L port:host:hostport] [-R port:host:hostport] [-D port] [command] DESCRIPTION
ssh-argv0 replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling. If you link to this script with a hostname then executing the link is equivalent to having executed ssh with that hostname as an argument. All other arguments are passed to ssh and will be processed normally. OPTIONS
See ssh(1). FILES
See ssh(1). AUTHORS
OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen. Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and created OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0. Jonathan Amery wrote this ssh-argv0 script and the associated documentation. SEE ALSO
ssh(1) Debian Project September 7, 2001 Debian Project
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