Emulating SSH's SOCKS Proxy Tunnel in Python

Question

I used to create a SOCKS connection between a windows client and linux server using SSH server and putty. However, the firewall between the client and server is now able to identify SSH packets and drop them.

I was wondering if I can emulate such behavior of SSH tunnels using python? Any recommendations on libraries or readings?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Yes, yes you can. Pick your poison.

• http://socksipy.sourceforge.net/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/pysocks/
• http://code.google.com/p/socksipy-branch/
• How can I use a SOCKS 4/5 proxy with urllib2?
• http://google-api-python-client.googlecode.com/hg/docs/httplib2.socks.html

Answer 2

You can consider using paramiko for your SSH. Here is a nice link ssh-programming-with-paramiko

You can also try this ssh module which uses paramiko.