Protocol Version Exchange: the comments field and an idea how to use it

[Peter Stuge]

Hannes Hörl wrote:
>> The imaginary use case was virtual hosts with a www. hostname
>> example, so the backend machines are presumably reachable at least
>> on one port already.
>
> No. I thought of the case, where the backend machines are not reachable 
> from the outside, but http goes through haproxy or something similar.
> So from the outside hostnames point to the proxy, but on the internal 
> network they resolve to their internal IPs.

Ie. they are reachable.

Why not make the HTTP proxy understand CONNECT (if it doesn't
already) and use a suitable proxycommand in your ssh config?


//Peter