Bug 697654

Description of problem:
I'm trying to set up plone on a virtual machine running CentOS 5.6. To do so, I'm connecting via ssh to the machine, and try commands there:

  here ~$ ssh -X vm.box

Connected over at vm.box (which doesn't have port 8080 open through the firewall), I can look at the Zope instance running at 8080 locally:

  vm.box ~$ links http://localhost:8080

This works OK, but interacting with a complex web site this way is painful... so I try firefox:

  vm.box ~$ firefox http://localhost:8080

Lo and behold, a new tab (?) shows up in the firefox running on here, and it informs me I haven't got access to port 8080 on vm.box


OK, very nice of you to forward the display to a new tab of the running firefox (BTW, if no firefox runs here, nothing happens) instead of opening a new browser window. But not being able to connect to the remote (firewalled) port kind of defeats all...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Here: Fedora 15, x86_64
firefox-4.0-3.fc15.x86_64
openssh-5.6p1-30.fc15.x86_64

vm.box: CentOS 5.6, x86_64
firefox-3.6.15-1.el5.centos
openssh-4.3p2-72.el5_6.3

How reproducible:
Always

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