How to get the Web contents though a remote site with SOCKS proxy by ssh

Abstract

As shown in the figure below, when My Site cannot connect to Web Server X directly, but can connect via a remote SSH server (remote_server) that can be connected via SSH, this post explains how to get WebServer X pages in My Site's Web browser.

As a remote_server, AWS and Azure can be available. In that case, the region of the request source can be set to that of the data center.

Create a SOCKS proxy

Run the following command with a SSH client on My Site. This creates a SOCKS proxy and has HTTP requests being sent from remote_server. The port number 8080 can be changed.

ssh -D 8080 remote_server

Configuration of Web browser

Configure a SOCK proxy in your Web browser. When the SSH client is executed in localhost (the same machine), set the address like below.

Chrome

google-chrome --proxy-server="socks://localhost:8080"

Firefox

Proxy setting dialog will be shown as you follow Menu -> Settings -> Network Settings -> Settings...
Set the IP adddress and port in the dialog.