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(Excel) SSH Tunnel with Dynamic Port Forwarding

Demonstrates how to start a background thread that runs a portable SSH tunnel w/ dynamic port forwarding that the foreground thread can use for establishing connections through an SSH tunnel.

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' Starting in v9.5.0.49, all Chilkat classes can be unlocked at once at the beginning of a program
' by calling UnlockBundle.  It requires a Bundle unlock code.
Dim chilkatGlob As Chilkat.CkGlobal
Set chilkatGlob = Chilkat.NewCkGlobal

success = chilkatGlob.UnlockBundle("Anything for 30-day trial.")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print chilkatGlob.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' This example requires Chilkat version 9.5.0.50 or greater.
Dim tunnel As Chilkat.SshTunnel
Set tunnel = Chilkat.NewSshTunnel


sshHostname = "sftp.example.com"

sshPort = 22

' Connect to an SSH server and establish the SSH tunnel:
success = tunnel.Connect(sshHostname,sshPort)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print tunnel.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Authenticate with the SSH server via a login/password
' or with a public key.  
' This example demonstrates SSH password authentication.
success = tunnel.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin","mySshPassword")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print tunnel.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Indicate that the background SSH tunnel thread will behave as a SOCKS proxy server
' with dynamic port forwarding:
tunnel.DynamicPortForwarding = True

' We may optionally require that connecting clients authenticate with our SOCKS proxy server.
' To do this, set an inbound username/password.  Any connecting clients would be required to 
' use SOCKS5 with the correct username/password.
' If no inbound username/password is set, then our SOCKS proxy server will accept both
' SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 unauthenticated connections.

tunnel.InboundSocksUsername = "chilkat123"
tunnel.InboundSocksPassword = "password123"

' Start the listen/accept thread to begin accepting SOCKS proxy client connections.
' Listen on port 1080.
success = tunnel.BeginAccepting(1080)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print tunnel.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Now that a background thread is running a SOCKS proxy server that forwards connections
' through an SSH tunnel, it is possible to use any Chilkat implemented protocol that is SOCKS capable,
' such as HTTP, POP3, SMTP, IMAP, FTP, etc.  The protocol may use SSL/TLS because the SSL/TLS
' will be passed through the SSH tunnel to the end-destination.  Also, any number of simultaneous
' connections may be routed through the SSH tunnel.

' For this example, let's do a simple HTTPS request:

url = "https://www.ethereum.org/"

Dim http As Chilkat.Http
Set http = Chilkat.NewHttp

' Indicate that the HTTP object is to use our portable SOCKS proxy/SSH tunnel running in our background thread.
http.SocksHostname = "localhost"
http.SocksPort = 1080
http.SocksVersion = 5
http.SocksUsername = "chilkat123"
http.SocksPassword = "password123"

http.SendCookies = True
http.SaveCookies = True
http.CookieDir = "memory"

' Do the HTTPS page fetch (through the SSH tunnel)

html = http.QuickGetStr(url)
If (http.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Stop the background listen/accept thread:

waitForThreadExit = True
success = tunnel.StopAccepting(waitForThreadExit)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print tunnel.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Close the SSH tunnel (would also kick any remaining connected clients).
success = tunnel.CloseTunnel(waitForThreadExit)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print tunnel.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If


 

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