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I mentioned in my blog post that there is an SSH gateway in between. I tried this on my local system:

  ssh -L 9000:127.0.0.1:8000 user@host

But when I visit http://127.0.0.1:9000/ on my local system, I get a connection reset by peer error. At the same time, in the terminal where I have set up the port forward with the ssh command above, I get this error:

  open failed: unknown channel type

The SSH gateway is forbidding port forwarding as well.

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I know we're getting into the weeds here but for the benefit of people learning random things that work slightly differently (tm)

A possible workaround for this specific scenario would be to use 'sshutle' which runs a python script on the remote end to terminate the traffic.

Except in your specific scenario you'd have to somehow trick it to execute using a login shell like one of the other comments shows.

Having said all of that, I would just do what you did :)

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