How can I visit external website through ssh forwarding through a single port?

Question

I need to ssh into my work computer, and then I need to connect to an external website (hosted entirely at another company) that my work has contracted with using my work machine.

This answer says I can tunnel through a single port using:

ssh -L 8080:server-hostname:80 remote-host

Which is ideal because then I don't have to pipe my entire traffic to my work machine. So if the website I need to access with my work machine is at:

http://www.abcde.com/1020-39x/proprietary-documentation-blah

I tried:

ssh -L 8080:http://www.abcde.com/1020-39x/proprietary-documentation-blah:80 me@work

But command returns an error saying Bad local forwarding specification

How can I do this?

Solution

You need to do it this way:

ssh -L 8080:www.abcde.com:80 me@work

and then connect with your browser to:

http://localhost:8080/1020-39x/proprietary-documentation-blah

to get the content of your remote server on www.abcde.com.

Comments

[bime]

The content is hosted at the client site, which is not part of the internal corporate network. So basically, I'm asking how I can ssh into my corporate machine, then browse to the www.abcd.com/... as though I was sitting at my desk and using my web browser on my work machine. I think your answer assumes that the content is hosted directly on the corporate servers, because I'm getting 'the requested URL is invalid` when I try it.

[Jakuje]

so for this would be better to use dynamic forwarding (aka SOCKS proxy): ssh -D 9999 me@work and then set up your browser to pass data over this proxy, which would allow you to connect directly to the website using the same URL.