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List:       httptunnel
Subject:    Re: Java httptunnel client?
From:       "Ben Efros" <bene () iolvegas ! com>
Date:       2000-10-17 5:41:46
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Maybe it would be possible to incorporate a simple web server that serves a
static html/java applet along side being compatible with httptunnel.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bauer" <bbauer@techonline.com>
To: <nocrew-httptunnel@nocrew.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 8:12 AM
Subject: Java httptunnel client?


> Hello,
> I've been using the httptunnel to let a web applet client, which uses a
> non-HTTP port, connect to a server, using a HTTP tunnel to get through a
> firewall. However, this requires that the user downloads and runs the htc
> program manually, and connects to the right hts. I'd like to make this
more
> automatic, and I think that if the tunnel client were an applet, my web
page
> could start it as well as the other client.
> Before I start working on this, I wonder if anyone has done any work on
> making at least the htc program a java applet? Are there any problems with
> this?
> There is one problem that occurs to me: Untrusted Java applets can only
> open connections to the machine they were loaded from, and hence the
server
> would have to be running both a HTTP server, and the hts server. I don't
see
> a obvious solution to this, other then to make the htc applet trusted.
> Thanks for any information or suggestions...
>
> Bill Bauer (bbauer@techonline.com)
> TechOnLine
> 35 Crosby Drive, Suite 301
> Bedford, MA 01730-1401
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>
>
>

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