Example SSH forwards SSH through office firewall, forward into Squid proxy: home$ ssh office -L 9999:squid.int.my_co.com:3128 \ "sleep 9999" & home$ http_proxy=http://localhost:3128/ home$ lynx http://payroll.int.my_co.com/cgi-bin/giveraise SSH through office firewall, providing connection back to home web server: home$ ssh office -R 8888:localhost:80 "sleep 9999999" & work$ wget -r http://localhost:8888/bachelor_party-2003/ work$ find . -name \*png | xargs lpr -Pcolour_printer