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List:       httptunnel
Subject:    Re: httptunnel questions...
From:       Karl_E._Jørgensen <karl () jorgensen ! com>
Date:       2000-11-10 10:10:23
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Sounds like the same as I want to set up!

I haven't got an always-on connection (yet), but I have (almost) managed to configure \
xringd on my home linux box to dial-up to my ISP whenever I call my fax number. So \
all I have to do is to "call home" to get the connection started.

Any chance of working together on this?
-- 
Karl E. Jørgensen
a.k.a karl@jorgensen.com , www.karl.jorgensen.com
--
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we'd still like yout to test out
this kernel.
	-- Linus Torvalds, announcing another kernel patch

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:25:22AM +0100, Ben Mitchell wrote:
> Hi folks...
> 
> I think what I want to do goes beyond the basic httptunnel functionality,
> but I thought I'd ask about it anyway.
> 
> I've got a server sitting in my basement at home that's got a broadband
> connection to the web.  I've also got friends who work for companies that
> severely limit their internet access (http only), and that like to monitor
> what they're doing on the web.  I'm thinking that I should be able to help
> them out.
> 
> Basically, what I'd like to do is something akin to tunneling a VPN
> connection from a PC on one side of a firewall that only allows http
> traffic, to a linux box outside the firewall.  That linux box could then run
> an IMAP mail server so people could deal with personal mail without having
> it local on their machines at work, an SMTP server so people could send mail
> without the hassle of PGP, but without their sysadmins reading it, and a web
> proxy server so they can surf the web without fear of anyone monitoring it.
> 
> As I see it, the requirement would be that some client proxy runs on the
> user's pc and converts traffic coming from a number of ports into encrypted
> traffic over http bound for my linux box outside the firewall.  The user
> points all his internet apps at this proxy on his own machine.  A server
> listening on the linux box outside the firewall listens for http traffic,
> decrypts it, and then routes the traffic to the appropriate local port where
> the various services the users might want to use will be listening.  One of
> the really cool things about this (or at least it seem like it should be the
> case) is that it's extremely difficult to firewall because even if the
> sysadmin knows what's going on and shuts down http to the IP of my linux
> machine, the user should be able to direct the local client proxy to go
> through any of the thousands of http proxies on the web to get to my
> machine.
> 
> Has anyone set this (or something like it) up?  This is an area I've never
> worked in before, but if it doesn't already exist, I may try to fiddle
> around with it a little...
> 
> -Ben
> 
> 
> 


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