GitHubbin’ from work
Port 22 blocked from work? No problem! m4dc4p has the solution. Just check out his Access GitHub repositories from work (take that, firewall!) blog post. At my workplace, a Microsoft…
Port 22 blocked from work? No problem! m4dc4p has the solution. Just check out his Access GitHub repositories from work (take that, firewall!) blog post.
At my workplace, a Microsoft ISA authenticating web proxy server is in place, restricting most outbound traffic. Specifically, port 22, the ssh port, is not allowed and that means I can’t pull or push to my repositories on GitHub.
Not anymore!
Update: I got Justin’s username wrong. Whoops! Fixed.
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