NAME
proxytunnel - program to tunnel a connection throught an standard HTTPS
proxy.
SYNOPSIS
proxytunnel [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the proxytunnel command.
proxytunnel is a program that open a tunnel through a HTTPS proxy.
OPTIONS
This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (‘-’).
-h, --help
Print help and exit.
-V, --version
Print the version of the program and exit.
-i, --inetd
Run from inetd. Default is off.
-a PORT, --standalone=PORT
Run as standalone daemon on specified port.
-p host:port, --proxy=host:port
The local HTTPS proxy host:port combo to connect to.
-r host:port, --remproxy=host:port
The second-level (remote) proxy host:port to connect to when
using two proxies.
-d host:port, --dest=host:port
The destination host:port to built the tunnel to.
-e, --encrypt
Encrypt the data between the local proxy and the destination
using SSL.
-E, --encrypt-proxy
Encrypt the data between the client and the local proxy using
SSL.
-X, --encrypt-remproxy
Encrypt the data between the local proxy and the second-level
proxy using SSL.
-F STRING, --passfile=STRING
The file containing Username & Password to send to HTTPS proxy
for authentification. This file uses the same format as
.wgetrc, and so can use the credentials in common with wget.
This option can be used to at least hide the password from
anyone clever enough to use the ‘ps’ command.
-P user:pass, --proxyauth=user:pass
The credentials to use for local HTTP(S) proxy authentication.
-R user:pass, --remproxyauth=user:pass
The credentials to use for remote HTTP(S) proxy authentication.
-N, --ntlm
Use NTLM-based authentication.
-t DOMAIN, --domain=DOMAIN
The NTLM domain to use, default is to autodetect.
-H STRING, --header=STRING
Additional HTTP headers to send to the proxy.
-x STRING, --proctitle=STRING
Use a different process title.
-v, --verbose
Turn on verbosity. Default is off.
-q, --quiet
Suppress messages. Default is off.
NOTES
To use this program with OpenSSH to connect to a host somewhere, create
a $HOME/.ssh/config file with the following content:
Host foobar
ProtocolKeepAlives 30
ProxyCommand /usr/bin/proxytunnel -p proxy.customer.com:8080
-P user:password -d mybox.athome.nl:443
If your proxy doesn’t require the username and password for using it,
you can skip these options.
If you want to run proxytunnel from inetd add the ’--inetd’ option.
Most HTTPS proxies do not allow access to ports other than 443 (HTTPS)
and 563 (SNEWS), so some hacking is necessary to start the SSH daemon
on the required port. (On the server side add an extra Port statement
in the sshd_config file)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Loïc Le Guyader
<loic.leguyader@laposte.net> and updated by Julian Gilbey
<jdg@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
others).
August 30, 2009