HTTPort [off-topic]

[Ranjit Mathew]

> > > Would someone mind creating a tar.gz distribution of RHUG sources from time to
> > > time? I'm working at a company who uses MS Proxy 2.0, so no access to CVS or
> > > anything except http under Linux.
> >
> > You might want to check out HTTPort:
> >
> >      http://www.htthost.com/
> >
> > which does TCP/IP tunnelling over HTTP using the
> > HTTP CONNECT method supported by most proxies.
> 
> Nice package, but Windows only. I need a Linux one. (that's funny, but my
> developer workstation runs only Linux while the proxy server is
> MS-braindead-proxy 2.0).

See:

    http://httppc.sourceforge.net/

Or you can write a TCP/IP "pass-through" filter yourself - it's
quite simple really:

$ telnet myproxy 80
CONNECT remoteserver:port HTTP/1.0

<start streaming packets>

Ranjit.
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