Snippet to tunnel an HTTP connection via paramiko (using urllib3)

http_over_paramiko.py

import urllib3
import paramiko
from pprint import pprint
from httplib import HTTPConnection

import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)


class TunnelingPoolManager(urllib3.PoolManager):

    def __init__(self, ssh_client=None, **kwargs):
        super(TunnelingPoolManager, self).__init__(**kwargs)
        self._ssh_client = ssh_client

    def _new_pool(self, scheme, host, port):
        if scheme == "http":
            return TunnelHTTPConnectionPool(host, ssh_client=self._ssh_client, port=port)
        else:
            return super(TunnelingPoolManager, self)._new_pool(scheme, host, port)


class TunnelHTTPConnectionPool(urllib3.HTTPConnectionPool):

    def __init__(self, host, ssh_client=None, **kwargs):
        super(TunnelHTTPConnectionPool, self).__init__(host, **kwargs)
        self._ssh_client = ssh_client

    def _new_conn(self):
        def monkey_connect():
            self = conn
            self.sock = ssh_client.get_transport().open_channel(
                    "direct-tcpip", (self.host, self.port), ("client", 7337))

        conn = HTTPConnection(host=self.host, port=self.port)
        conn.connect = monkey_connect
        return conn


ssh_client = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh_client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
ssh_client.connect('INTERNET_GATEWAY.my_site.net')

http = TunnelingPoolManager(ssh_client=ssh_client)
for x in range(2):
    r = http.request('GET', 'http://jenkins/')
    print r.status
    pprint(r.headers)
    print r.data