Shevek wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Newton, Philip wrote: > > > As in our lovely firewall which doesn't allow *any* outside > > access except by proxy (which basically reduces it to HTTP > > and HTTPS). > > Can you cheat via an https proxy?
Well, since you can't proxy HTTPS, you can, kind of -- once you tell the proxy "CONNECT remote.host 443", it'll pass through data transparently and is presumably none the wiser whether that data is actually HTTP-over-SSL or AIM or eDonkey2K or whatever. However, it only allows CONNECT to a remote port of 443. (Which is why I'm looking for someone nice who'll run an sshd on port 443 that he'll let me use. Then I could run an ssh proxy on localhost that on accepting a connection sends the appropriate CONNECT header to the firewall/proxy and then just passes remaining data on transparently, and then connect to localhost:2222 --> firewall:8080 --> remotehost:443 --> sshd. But that's another story.) Not sure if that's what you meant by cheating. (I *did* try "CONNECT remote.host 22", and a couple of other ports... not recently, granted, but I doubt they've become more lenient since then.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
