Oh, sorry, I thought you said you could ssh out. Maybe I misunderstood.
There is no way the hotel could know what is inside of a ssh session, so if you CAN ssh out their is no way they could block properly forwarded ports. They wouldn't even be able to tell what ports you were forwarding.
There is nothing unique about how linux sets up an ssl connection as far as I know.
Seems like its gotta be somewhere in your browser itself if it is blocking https even thru a forwarded ssh port.
I assume you've tried other browsers?
There is always ssh to some other linux/unix machine and then fire up a browser over the ssh connection. It will be very slow. But it should work since everything is in the ssh tunnel.
I can make an ssh connection, but as soon as I try to do anything over the connection, it fails. It's definitely not the browser. My thunderbird client also fails. It starts to download emails but then loses connection, similar to ssh. I used wireshark with the browser and the browser makes SSL connections, exchanges keys, but then just goes to lala land. I do have a workaround this morning. I installed our sslvpn client and successfully connected to the office, and as long as I route everything over this connection it all works. To answer your question, yes, I've tried other browsers. I have Windows XP running in a VM using NAt networking and it has the same problems. At this point I have no idea. I sent an email to the hotel support to try and find out what equipment they have at this hotel. I doubt they will share that info, and they probably don't have any linux type knowledge, but I figured it's worth a shot. Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org