Ball Dawg!

Being in a large corporate environment has positives and negatives, one of those negatives is that many companies use HTTP proxies to control and track internet usage from your work machines.  While in most cases this is very important from the HR and workplace productivity side, it can become a headache if you actually need something outside your companies firewalls that is blocked.  In my case I wanted to backup some configurations and code to my home machine.  To do this I’d generally just rsync over ssh or scp the files over to an off site machine.   Sadly with a full firewall up and all traffic required to go through HTTP proxies, I had to find a different solution.  In my case, I decided to use ‘corkscrew’.
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