Just an update.
I did what what Todd told and it is working fine.
Thanks Todd, you the man
hasenhei wrote:
> Doug wrote:
> > But that is you are using openSSH.
> > I understand that Putty already has HTTP proxy connect build in.
> > I hope my understading is correct.
>
> Doug, your understanding is absolutely correct :-)
>
> I just didn't know that putty has this functionality built-in. I just
> tested configuring proxy in putty on a windows-machine now, and it
> worked fine.
>
> Doug wrote :
>
> 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).
>
> Right, this is what I meant when saying "In a lot of setup (including
> my own) the connect-method is only allowed to port 443,".
>
> The proxy-server of your company does not allow the connect-method to
> port 22.
>
> > 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.
>
> Yes, because there's no ssh-server (not even anything at all)
> responding on port 80 on the machine you try to connect to.
>
> I think the solution to your problem was already given by Todd H. in
> his previous message.
>
> You should configure your ssh-server to listen on port 443 (maybe 80
> would do too here, but 443 is better).
> Of course you need to tell putty to connect to port 443 then. I just
> tested this here, and it worked fine.
>
> Cheers,
> Armin
>
> PS: Be careful with firewall-piercing if your work-contract does not
> allow such habits.
> Of course this ssh-connection shows up in the proxy-log.