Tunnel over HTTPS

Question

At my workplace, the traffic blocker/firewall has been getting progressively worse. I can\'t connect to my home machine on port 22, and lack of ssh access makes me sad. I was

Answer 1

Set up OpenVPN 2.1 server at home, use port 443 (if you set up your home any HTTPS service at port 443, trigger OpenVPN's port-share option to handle both OpenVPN and HTTPS transactions at port 443; this feature is only available to non-Windows OS)

Then, set up your OpenVPN client on your laptop in road-warrior mode to access the OpenVPN server at home. You will be able to call home or anywhere you like within a secure VPN network you've created with OpenVPN. It is no longer required to use SSH for this purpose.