"Doug" <dmly.usa@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> My company doesn't allow any kind of connection to outside. The only
> way you can have access to the internet is thru the company's HTTP
> proxy. Other traffic (DNS included) is prohibited.
> I have learned that you can access ssh server via http proxy. But when
> I set it up in PUTTY (under Connection -> Proxy tab) looks like the
> HTTP proxy detects I am trying to connect to SSH server. Thus it throws
> service not allowed exception (error 403).
> But if I try to change the port # of ssh server setting for PUTTY from
> 22 to 80 it throws this exception:
> 503: service unavailable.
>
> So I wonder if I change my SSH server port to 8080 for example, will it
> work for me?

If you change your SSH server to listen on 443 you'll probably be
golden.


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