On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 08:26:57PM -0500, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > I've a server in Canada and am thinking of trying privoxy or similar > tunnel. Does anyone have experience or advice on use of privoxy or > similar tools? If you are going to setup an internet accessible web proxy you need one that supports authentication. Privoxy does not support any authentication. A web proxy like squid does support authentication but I recommend that you use ssh with the "DynamicForward" option to create a socks tunnel. It is trivial to setup. Start the tunnel with: ssh -D 1080 server-in-canada Set the web browser proxy to use SOCKS V5 with localhost 1080 as the SOCKS Host. Watch TVO. There is/was a firefox plugin that will give you a button to easily turn the proxy settings on and off. If she is using that other OS the ssh client putty also supports dynamic (SOCKS) tunnels. -- sg