I wanted to access a Non Standard HTTP Port on one of my RaspberryPi Hosts, which was not directly available to the Internet, so I have chosen to establish a SOCKS Tunnel to achieve that.

Web Application on my LAN

Getting my RaspberryPi’s Private IP Address:

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$ ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet 192' | awk '{print $2}'
192.168.1.118

For demonstration purposes, I will use Python’s SimpleHTTPServer:

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$ mkdir web
$ cd web
$ echo 'yeehaa' > index.html
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5050
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 5050 ...

Establish the SOCKS Tunnel

From my laptop, establishing the SOCKS Tunnel with SSH, you can use -f to fork it in the background:

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$ ssh -D 8157 -CqN user@home.domain.com

Configure your Browser:

Configure your browser to Proxy via:

• Host: localhost
• Port: 8157

Now when you access the destined host’s private ip, you will get a response:

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Browse to http://192.168.1.118:5050/ and in my case my response is:
-> yeehaa