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Petr Sebor
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----- Original Message -----
From: Hummel, Timo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 1:37 PM
Subject: TCP/IP Tunneling over HTTP (no joke!)
> Hello everyone!
>
> I got a problem and I wanted to know if anybody knows a solution for this.
I
> want to tunnel the TCP/IP
> protocol over HTTP. Now you surely ask: "Why would anybody want to do
> this?". The answer is
> simple: To avoid firewalls and proxies! I'm working for a company and the
> only connection to the rest
> of the world is a proxy. Now I sometimes need to administrate my internet
> server, but the problem is
> that the proxy only can do HTTP requests. I thought a bit about that
> problem, and I came to one
> solution, but I'm not sure if it could work. To tunnel TCP/IP trough HTTP,
> it requires at least two
> components: A client that receives the TCP/IP data on a specific port and
> send it trough the HTTP
> protocol (maybe with POST, which is used for form uploads) and a server
that
> receives the data
> via HTTP and post the data into the net again. A diagram would look like
> this:
>
> Sending data:
> TCP/IP Data -> Client -> HTTP POST Method -> Firewall -> Server -> TCP/IP
> Data
>
> Receiving data:
> TCP/IP Data <- Client <- HTTP GET Method <- Firewall <- Server <- TCP/IP
> Data
>
> The only problem might be security issues, but at least it should work,
and
> if
> both the client and server are using data encryption, it should be safe to
> a certain level.
>
> Has anybody thought about this before? Are there solutions already out
> there?
>
> Best regards
> Timo
>
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