Often, when accessing a website only available behind some firewall at a site where we have ssh
accces,
we can take advantage of ssh built-in SOCKS proxy support to create a tunnel. For instance,
ssh -D8080 lxplus7.cern.ch
followed by configuring your browser
to use the SOCKS proxy at localhost:8080
allows access as if you were browsing from inside CERN network.
One downside of this is that all traffic is forwarded through the proxy, where you may only need it to access one specific site. To help with that, we can set up a proxy auto-config