You may also wish to investiate a non-Perl option that might be a tool you will find useful, connect.c

Edit: added more information

In addition, you can use PuTTY in Windows or the standard OpenSSH client to do allow for the tunneling.

If you use the -D8080 option, then your SSH server will act as a SOCKs proxy, and you can set up Firefox to use a SOCKs proxy on http://127.0.0.1 port 8080

The equivalent in PuTTY is to set up using the Tunnels tab. See the PuTTY docs describing port forwarding and using port forwarding in PuTTY

In reply to Re: Perling my way through an oppressive firewall by Sinistral
in thread Perling my way through an oppressive firewall by Anonymous Monk

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