Simple ways to test ssh tunnel

[Mathieu Westphal]

Thank you very much, telnet is indeed the simplest way, I should have think
of it.

Also, the simplest way to have a http server running is with python
python -m http.server will work just fine.

Mathieu Westphal


On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:26 PM Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, Darren Tucker wrote:
>
> > On 5 October 2018 at 19:23, Mathieu Westphal
> > <mathieu.westphal at kitware.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > ssh -L 8080:localhost:11111 user at remote
> > >
> > > What command could I then use to use this tunnel as simply as possible,
> > > either on the client, the server or both.
> >
> > On the client, "telnet localhost 8080".  If it connects, depending on
> > what's on the other end either you'll get a banner or it'll wait for
> > the client to send something.  If it speaks HTTP. you can type
> > something like "GET /" and it'll probably give either a page or an
> > error message.
>
> You can also use netcat instead of telnet, or perhaps "openssl s_client"
> if your endpoint requires TLS.
>
> -d
>