Comment 3 for bug 67488

I can confirm that this is still a bug in Putty 0.60-1 on Gutsy. One thing that sets Putty apart is its ability to easily tunnel through proxies to connect to a destination. Using the OpenSSH client through an HTTP Proxy, for example, requires the use of corkscrew (a separate package) and special client configuration in ~/.ssh/config.

So, without the combination of Putty's ability to tunnel through a proxy, _plus_ it's ability to create tunnels to the destination server, it is of little use to me. :(