Topic: Connecting to Squid from the outside???

[Jim Bradley]

I want to be able to occasionally connect to Squid for proxy services from the internet side (so I can get to my webmail site that my employer's proxy likes to block). What do I need to do to make Squid visible from the outside?

Thanks.

Jim Bradley -- Maryville, MO USA

[Dave]

I don't know, Jim.  But I can help you make a pipe bomb

[Martin Warnes]

I believe you can do it using the Mindterm SSH product, open a tunnel between port 3128 on your squid server and 3128 on the localhost. Then reconfigure your browser proxy to use localhost and 3128.

[Luke Drumm]

As an alternative, to port mapping via SSH, you might want to consider using a CGI-proxy such as the one found at http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/ .

This way you can put the cgiproxy in an ibay's cgi directory and access it's web pages from anywhere. I would suggest adding some sort of security to either the proxys perl code or the ibay to avoid others snatching your bandwidth illegally.

Regards,
Luke