October 2008 tunnelopen is a script that lets you open certain resource URLs through an ssh tunnel, similarly to just using the open command. The script sets up an ssh tunnel and redirects the URL through that tunnel. ... In the simplest case, you use tunnelopen the way you would use open: tunnelopen afp://remotehost/ The script finds a free local port, sets up a tunnel from that port to the service on the remote host, and then opens a URL to the local port. ... But you may want a reusable tunnel. ...