Tunneling | a trick

Sometimes in some environment, some of the websites may be restricted. There are lots of softwares eg. mcafee, which acts as a proxy of your network in your company network and restricts some category sites to be browsed.

What you could do is, you could tunnel the request to some remote machine and browse the contents from there. This will work if the proxy filtering is not applied in that network where the remote machine is located.

Steps

1. Open your putty, type the server where you want to connect

2. Click the “Tuenneling” link in Putty, select “Dynamic” as the option

3. Enter a port number in the port sectioin, and add. eg : 8080

4. Hit enter, enter username and password in the terminal. Connect to the machine

5. In the browser, set the proxy as “localhost:8080″

6. Browse and enjoy.