How To Use SSH to Browse Safely Through A Secure Tunnel

I've already written a beginner's guide on SSH OVER HERE.Now this tutorial goes a step further showing you one of the best applications of ssh. There are lots of tutorials of using your SSH server as a proxy server to route traffic through the ssh server therefore making your browsing a lot more SAFER. This tutorial would achieve goal but in a much easier way.So here's how this is done :

Step 1 : Go To the terminal of the client type ssh -X prash@prash-desktop . (obviously replace prash and prash-desktop accordingly) .
Step 2 : Make sure firefox is not open in your end
Step 3 : Now once your ssh session is started , in the ssh terminal type firefox -no-remote
Step 4 : Thats it , firefox should now open on your pc and it would be as if your browsing right from the server's machine.For example : opening http://127.0.0.1 would open the ssh server's webserver page.. www.whatismyip.com would give the WAN ip of the ssh server and not the WAN ip of the client machine.

NOTE : This method requires a high speed internet connection compared to the proxy type method , but it is much easier to configure...