Opens a port on your machine and tunnel all traffic to a custom target host via the SSH server, for example to connect with a database server behind a firewall.
Arguments
- session
ssh connection created with
ssh_connect()- port
integer of local port on which to listen for incoming connections
- target
string with target host and port to connect to via ssh tunnel
Details
This function blocks while the tunnel is active. Use the tunnel by connecting to
localhost:5555 from a separate process. Each tunnel can only be used once and will
automatically be closed when the client disconnects. It is intended to tunnel a single
connection, not as a long running proxy server.
See also
Other ssh:
scp,
ssh_connect(),
ssh_credentials,
ssh_exec