On: Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022

[showerst]

I do the same thing; really nice for those things you just can’t put behind a VPN for one reason or another.

[nuccy → showerst]

A nice alternative to VPN (especially when you don't have a root to set it up) is using ssh tunnels: ssh user@server -D 1234 and Firefox with socks proxy set to 127.0.0.1:1234 (e.g. using Foxyproxy addon, though possible without it via the Firefox network settings). Then all Firefox trafic is exiting on the server side (including DNS requests).

[znpy → nuccy]

> including DNS requests

Don't be sure about that!

There's an additional setting to check to be sure dns goes through the proxy.

Can't recall the details now, but it's there!

Or maybe it was due to dns over tls not being proxied?