Forum OpenACS Q&A: http tunnel

1: http tunnel

Posted by David Kuczek on 03/28/02 09:59 AM

This topic was introduced in the thread talking about functionality of
the java chat...

https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0004FH

We thought that it would be nice to optionally http-tunnel
applications running on seperate ports (java-chat, jabber and many
more in the future 😉 through port 80. This way people behind
firewalls blocking the respective ports could still use it.

Would it be reasonable and/or hard to integrate a *general* tunneling
fuctionality directly into openacs, so that any such application could
easily be set up to work with oacs via http-tunnel?

I found java code for tunneling that is integrated into the nfc-chat:

http://nfcchat.sourceforge.net/doc/api/

I also found this tunnel software:

http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html

Any specialists out there???

2: Response to http tunnel (response to 1)

Posted by Jonathan Ellis on 03/28/02 05:25 PM

I wrote a lightweight nfc client, so I have some experience with it; the author's code is pretty clean although he has an inordinate fondness for interfaces. :) The http tunneling code is intended to be used in a j2ee environment; I haven't really looked to see if it could be ported to nsjava.

3: Response to http tunnel (response to 1)

Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 03/29/02 06:03 AM

David, I have been checking around this, I think that I've found a possible solution but let me study it deeply first... I'll keep you and all posted... ;o)