What is a TIL?

Today I learned a neat trick: if your institution doesn’t support VPN, you can still access internal URLs using an SSH proxy. Here are the steps:

  1. Open a terminal and run ssh -ND 9999 user@hostname.domain.
  2. In Firefox, change the SOCKS settings to localhost, port 9999 and SOCKS v5.

Voila! No VPN? No problem. Access internal URLs easily with this SSH proxy workaround.