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I used to use a tool that does exactly this nearly 20 years ago to poke a hole through corporate firewalls, corkscrew[0].

Nice standalone implementation and write up though.

0: https://github.com/bryanpkc/corkscrew

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AIUI corkscrew works for a specific use case:

1. you're behind an HTTP proxy, and

2. the HTTP proxy support the CONNECT method

Around 20 years ago I did a short contract which had #1 but not #2. Thankfully, there's a tool for this, too. Of course it requires some set up on the server side:

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/httptunnel

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