Secure Wireless Proxy
After reading a Lifehacker post a while back on more secure wireless browsing, I decided to setup an SSH Tunnel + SOCKS Proxy for Firefox, including (optionally) using FoxyProxy to make things easier.
The short of it is:
Using FoxyProxy in this case simply makes it easier to switch back and forth between proxied and direct connections if you need to. FoxyProxy sits on the bottom toolbar in Firefox, and with a couple of clicks will let you switch between proxy setups (including a "no proxy" setup, if desired).
The short of it is:
- Use "ssh -D 9999 user@server" to establish a connection to a remote server.
- Use FoxyProxy to point to a SOCKS proxy on localhost.
Using FoxyProxy in this case simply makes it easier to switch back and forth between proxied and direct connections if you need to. FoxyProxy sits on the bottom toolbar in Firefox, and with a couple of clicks will let you switch between proxy setups (including a "no proxy" setup, if desired).