How to use the SSH in the proxy env

Sometimes you are working in the coperation dev environemnt and you found you stay behind the firewall, some ports are blocked, such as 22, and you have to access internet via corperation proxy server, but you do need to use ssh to connect some site outside of office. This post will provide you a solution to use SSH in the proxy environment.

This post imagin that you work with Mac env

1. Install corkscrew:

    ./configure -host=apple
    make
    make install

it will be installed in /usr/local/corkscrew by default.

2. Config proxy information In System preference

3. Setup the SSH config info

    echo 'ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/corkscrew your.proxy.server 8080 %h %p' >> ~/.ssh/config

4. Test with

    ssh xx@xxx.com

Done.