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So if I understand this correctly, apache + the proxy mod is doing the heavy lifting here correct? It receives a request to connect on port 22 to the ssh-server and, apparently, it is smart enough to just know that it needs to establish an ssh connection? I ask because I thought that CONNECT would result in tls connections only.

Edit: I should just have looked up the wikipedia example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel

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Long ago I used stunnel to establish encrypted connections to remotely access my sockets servers.

https://www.stunnel.org/

It didn't really matter what the protocol was, the client and server just see each other. IIRC it was also possible to connect a browser with https to a tunneled http server or viceversa.

I'm fairly certain it just opens a TCP connection on the clients behalf and proxies the clients data over it. No knowledge of SSH required.

Yes I think you are correct. Thanks for clarifying.

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