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I have a service running on a certain port at the server. What I want to do is, access the server using SSH and use a local (client-side) program to access the server's port. Is that possible?

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Connecting to a port on a server via an ssh tunnel can be done with the -L local port forwarding option.

For example, to connect to www.example.com:80 & to make it available on the client as port 8080, you would do:

ssh -L8080:127.0.0.1:80 www.example.com

This allows you to go to http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your browser & have www.example.com:80 available. You can also have www.example.com connect to another host instead of itself, making the tunnel into a proxy.

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