Hi Francois, Thanks very much for your offer. I'd like very much to see your proxy/tunnel. Please email it to me.
Regards, Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Francois PIETTE > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 12:53 AM > To: ICS support mailing > Subject: Re: [twsocket] NNTP / SMTP / POP3 proxy/tunnel > > > I want to build a simple NNTP proxy. However, I only need to > intercept the > > POST command and then grab the message. I've done this and I've found > it > > easy to accomplish. Do you think this slight variation of socketspy > is > > actually useable, or do I need a more robust proxy? I was unable to > find a > > NNTP proxy in Delphi/Cbuilder anywhere. I do like the simplicity of > > socketspy. I could build on it if I should need more in the future. > > I wrote a SMTP/POP3 proxy server with HTTP tunnelling. You could use > similar > code in your NNTP proxy. Initially I wanted to implement NNTP the same > way > but had no time to do it yet. > > The goal of my application (OverbyteGateway and OverbyteGatewayServer > as I > named the beast) is to allow someone to use standard SMTP/POP3 client > such > as Windows Mail Client within an organization where only HTTP is > allowed > with the help of a second program running on another computer. Any > computer > or server is OK. I even use a dynamic IP by the way of DynDNS service. > > Instead of starting from SocketSpy I started at a higher level. I mean, > SocketSpy works at the TCP level, not knowing anything about what is > transported while the code I wrote understand SMTP and POP3 commands. > This > makes things easier as soon as you must intercept some specific > command. > > When I said "understand SMTP and POP3 commands", I don't mean complete > command implementation. Since my proxy is mainly a tunnel, one side of > the > tunnel (client side) listen for POP3/SMTP commands, roughly decode it, > encapsulate it into a HTTP request, send the the server side which in > turn > send it to the actual external SMTP/POP3 server. The code was fairly > easy to > write. Actually I implemented only the commands used by Windows Mail > Client > which I use. Other client program could require other commands altough > it is > likely not. > > I have not yet had time to publish this code. It probably need some > cleaning > and some commenting. Anyway, if you or someone else want it, I can > build a > zip file and email it. No waranty and no commitment to support it > altough I > will do my best to answer questions in twsocket mailing list. The > license is > almost the same as TWSocket: you can use it freely for whatever legal > you > want but you cannot claim you wrote the code. You must include a notice > in > your software (source code, about box and documentation) that you used > my > code, with clear reference to me and my website. > > And by the way, you can buy consulting or custom developement from me > if you > want me to customize that code for you, or private email support if you > don't want to talk in public about your project. Email me for prices. > > -- > [email protected] > The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare > The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) > http://www.overbyte.be > > > > -- > To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list > please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket > Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
