Reverse port forwarding implementation #148
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The reverse port forwarding feature provides a proxy for service within reach of the machine executing the SSH3 client, which is deployed into the SSH3 server machine. This allows any incoming communication request arriving at the proxy deployed on the SSH3 server to be forwarded to the SSH3 client.
In this implementation, the SSH3 client generates a request to the server to open a new channel through RequestTCPReverseChannel() and includes in the additional bytes the information regarding reverse port forwarding. Then, the server listens to the defined socket and waits for incoming connections. Once they occur, the server opens a new channel through OpenTCPReverseForwardingChannel(), which is used to forward the communications back to the client to act as a reverse proxy.