On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:19:26AM -0700, rohit sharma wrote:
> but why is it in linux all the http tunnel like
> programs either need ssl/ssh support on the server or
> need to have a server running outside the
> firewall(like in home which further fwd our requests)

It's OS independent. It's proxy dependent, and of its configuration.

> there are programs in windows like socks2http which
> can simply tunnel the tcp ip requests as http and let
> it pass through the squid. don't we have any without
> the ssl support i tried installing dante but the
> forwarding clients are not free.

Proxies servers don't magically transform HTTP requests into TCP/IP
packets. The proxy must allow CONNECT to any port in order to socks2http
or any similar program to work.

> as someone also asked -> how can we disallow this.

Proper acl rules on proxy server. As of squid:
acl CONNECT method CONNECT
acl SSL_ports port 443 563
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

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