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Re:Ask HN : Where do you work (if freelance) ? by carbon8 on Saturday January 17, 2009 @02:34PM (#438457)
blocks all outbound ports except 80 and 443. So I couldn't do alot

You should tunnel everything through ssh or vpn when on a public network, anyway, so having a server or router you can ssh into on 443 and use for tunneling is a must for mobile work since it solves the port blocking problem, too.

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Re:Ask HN : Where do you work (if freelance) ? by tptacek on Saturday January 17, 2009 @03:13PM (#438502)
It takes a remarkably crappy security gateway to allow this trick to work; you can't really do it through a Blue Coat or PIX/ASA, because they're doing full proxy for HTTP/HTTPS and they cut off long-lived connections.
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