[SLL] Proxy server

[Mark Foster]

Phil Hughes wrote:
> I am having an interesting problem related to not being in the U.S. The
> issue used to be that people wouldn't ship to Nicaragua (even though it
> should be amazingly easy considering how many empty banana containers return
> here). So, I have a "US address" meaning a mail forwarder.
[snip]
> Any suggestions (other than just buy directly from China which I already do
> as much as possible)?
>   
Might want to consider whether said proxy is going to relay 
"X-Forwarded-for" headers and what-not.

A quick and dirty approach would be to use an ssh tunnel (e.g. ssh -L 
8443:www.example.com:443 <host-in-us-of-a> ) and masquerade that way. 
Then you could point your browser to https://localhost:8443/ - might 
just work.
But this would need account with ssh access some where in the U.S. 
Perhaps lonestar would suffice. http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi

I suppose with said account you could also install your own (real) web 
proxy software and run it off a high #'d port.
It's probably in their AUP that you don't do that.

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