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@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018, Darren Tucker wrote: > > > On 5 October 2018 at 19:23, Mathieu Westphal > > <mathieu.westphal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [...] > > > ssh -L 8080:localhost:11111 user@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 > _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
