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[Riad S. Wahby]

Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:
> Some of us still use it, but we tend not to recommend it to 
> anyone - it has become fairly obscure and, to be honest, lots 
> of webpages suck pretty hard when viewed through lynx.  I 
> find it particularly handy though as a route around some 
> firewalls.  If I find myself on a machine where HTTP requests 
> are filtered or published, I can ssh to a machine where they're 
> not and use lynx from there. 

Or, slightly more complicated and much more flexible, tunnel a port on
the local machine to a public proxy (or one that you're running
yourself) outside the firewall, then direct your browser to use that
port as its proxy.

Of course, the best way of getting around the firewall problem is to
tunnel a PPP session over SSH and give youself an entirely new network
interface that acts like it's outside the firewall.  With *IX, this is
a trivial application of PPPd.  Surprisingly enugh, the AOL client is
the easiest and cheapest way I've found to do this in Windows.

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Riad Wahby
rsw at mit.edu
MIT VI-2/A 2002