Useful things you can make SSH do

Re:Useful things you can make SSH do by herrherr on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @06:59PM (#1536819)

You could also (theoretically, haven't tested it all):

- watch Hulu, when you're not in the US

- use Spotify when you are in the US (and you use a UK box for example)

- bypass your university firewall

- in general secure your connection in case you are using an open network

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Re:Useful things you can make SSH do by technomancy on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @07:18PM (#1536855)

Actually I'm pretty sure the Adobe Flash plugin will ignore your proxy settings, so it will only work with actual web sites.

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Re:Useful things you can make SSH do by nl on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @07:45PM (#1536890)

This isn't true - I use a proxy tunnel frequently, and Flash works fine.

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Re:Useful things you can make SSH do by bhattisatish on Thursday July 22, 2010 @02:51AM (#1537532)

Flash works but it uses the default system connection and not your browsers proxy connection. So in cases of site that have IP based restriction, flash based sites will still see your original IP

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Re:Useful things you can make SSH do by karatchov on Friday July 23, 2010 @07:48AM (#1540921)

and how do you know about this ? I use the very same trick with youtube and many other flash based sites. And flash ALWAYS use the browser's settings (at least in opera and firefox) both in Windows and Ubuntu

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Re:Useful things you can make SSH do by precious on Monday August 23, 2010 @05:32AM (#1626263)

Launch your browser using tsocks.

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Re:Useful things you can make SSH do by bacarter on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @08:05PM (#1536924)

ssh tunnels work great for hulu and netflix when travelling abroad. Or so I've heard :)

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