Getting to an SSH account over a HTTP proxy

[BJörn Lindqvist]

On 1/22/07, Yu-Xi Lim <yuxi at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> He's referring to the HTTP CONNECT method, which can tunnel arbitrary
> TCP connections, not just HTTP. The IETF draft for this is titled
> "Tunneling TCP based protocols through Web proxy servers".
>
> AFAIK, there are no Python modules which support that. The protocol
> itself is fairly simply though, so it shouldn't be too hard to write
> your own wrapper or proxy for the client side. Things get a little more
> complicated if you have to authenticate with the proxy first.

The proxy in question requires authentication. Do you mean that I
should be able to write something that handles the communication to
the proxy and then run a library like paramiko "over that"? I have no
idea how to do that.

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mvh Björn