local-open | Open webpages on your local machine | SSH Utils library

Download the local-open script and place it somewhere in your PATH on the remote machine. For example, run this from ~/bin/:.
Download the local-open script and place it somewhere in your PATH on the remote machine. For example, run this from ~/bin/: ``` curl -L -O http://github.com/suan/local-open/raw/master/local-open ``` - Set the desired config variables, either by `export`ing them in your `.bashrc` or by setting them in a `~/.localopenrc` file. These are the available options: - **LOCAL_OPEN_PORT**: Port for the SSH connection to the base machine, e.g. `1999`. *Defaults to 22* - **LOCAL_OPEN_HOST**: Host for the SSH connection to the base machine. *Defaults to "localhost"* - **LOCAL_OPEN_USER**: Username for the SSH connection to the base machine. *Defaults to the current SSH session's username.* - **LOCAL_OPEN_CMD**: The "open" command to use on the base machine, e.g. `"open"` or `"xdg-open"`. *Defaults to "open".* - **ALT_LOCALHOST**: The domain name which will replace `localhost` or `127.0.0.1` in URLs. *Defaults to the hostname of the current machine.* - If your base machine is inaccessible from the remote one, you need to setup a reverse SSH tunnel. The below section has instructions. - Now, when you do `local-open <URL>`, the URL will be opened on your base machine's browser! - If you like, you could create an `xdg-open` function in your `.bashrc` or equivalent which calls `local-open` instead for URLs. This would make any program which uses `xdg-open` automatically use `local-open`. (Some people don't like overriding system commands like that so I've left that out)
If your base machine is inaccessible from the remote one, you need to establish a reverse SSH tunnel from the base machine to the remote one. I highly recommend using [AutoSSH][autossh], which will monitor and keep your tunnel alive (available in all package managers and homebrew). You could set such a tunnel to run on startup. To open a reverse tunnel on the remote host’s port 1999, with port 1998 as the "monitoring" port:.