[Eug-lug] Simple HTTP proxy for Windows?

[Alan]

> Alan wrote:
>
>> Recent versions of sshd can act as a socks proxy.
>> Since you've got cygwin already installed on the windows box, just run
>> the
>> sshd daemon, and use ssh -D 1080 windows.machine.vpn on your unix
>> machine
>> to forward things out of the vpn.
>
> That looks like an excellent solution, but I can't get Firefox to use
> SOCKS.  Maybe SOCKS support has been compiled out.
>

Firefox 2.0.0.3/Ubuntu has it in Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced ->
Network ->  Settings -> Socks Host.

-ajb