Corkscrew (program)
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Corkscrew is a program enables the user to tunnel arbitrary TCP
connections through most HTTP and HTTPS
proxy server
s. Combined with features of SSH
such as port forwarding
, this can allow many types of services to be run securely over the SSH
via HTTP connections.
Supported proxy servers:
Transmission Control Protocol
The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP...
connections through most HTTP and HTTPS
Https
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server...
proxy server
Proxy server
In computer networks, a proxy server is a server that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource available from a different server...
s. Combined with features of SSH
Secure Shell
Secure Shell is a network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client...
such as port forwarding
Port forwarding
Port forwarding or port mapping is a name given to the combined technique of# translating the address and/or port number of a packet to a new destination# possibly accepting such packet in a packet filter...
, this can allow many types of services to be run securely over the SSH
Secure Shell
Secure Shell is a network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client...
via HTTP connections.
Supported proxy servers:
- Gauntlet
- CacheFlow
- Internet JunkbusterInternet JunkbusterThe Internet Junkbuster is a web proxy that can block ads and cookies. It was developed by the Junkbusters Corporation and released under the GNU General Public License...
- Squid
- Apache's mod proxyMod proxymod_proxy is an optional module for the Apache HTTP Server .This module implements a proxy/gateway/cache for Apache. It implements proxying capability for or AJP13 , FTP, CONNECT , HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0, and HTTP/1.1...