Cup-of-Mud is a http Well Java client
But check out www.netlab.org
link to Netlab International then to Visit.
It is a web based NON-Jave to a tcp app... within the application is the
ability to telnet elsewhere. We have used same http method to go just about
anywhere. My son wrote it, so I may not be able to answer many questions, but he
does have email link on the pager
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Petr Sebor wrote:
> Check out HTTPTUNNEL at http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html
>
> Petr
>
> --
> Petr Sebor
> Technology/Engine Development
> SCS Software [ http://www.scssoft.com ]
>
> ----- 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
> >
> > -
> > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
> > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
> the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
The Net Lab year 2000 and beyond Internet Education is Science
http://www.netlab.org
WA0JRJ - Jerry
ICQ 6408731
AIM PappyJerry
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
