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# status works in theory, but not that useful since _sending_ requests with chunked bodies seems to be unimplemented by populair proxies... # intro tunnel a tcp connection through http. the idea is to run a special httpd on a machine that has normal internet access. a http client will connect to that httpd, perhaps from behind a firewall. the client will make a POST request in "chunked" transfer-encoding mode, a header "destination" indicates the address the special httpd should connect the client to. whenever the clients tcp connection sends data, a chunk with that data is sent over the chunked POST connection. the remote server does the same, so responds in "chunked" transfer-encoding. keep-alive messages are sent by both ends to make sure proxies do not think the connections are idle and shut them down. keep-alive messages are 1-byte chunks (content ignored), for all other chunks the first byte is the same as for a keep-alive message and must be ignored. this scheme works when there is no proxy forwarding the http request/response. a chunked post seems legitimate when reading the rfc. however, it seems the proxies tested (squid, polipo, tinyproxy) cannot handle chunked posts. i see no reason why they shouldn't. # download get the latest version at: http://www.ueber.net/code/r/httptun # install first, make sure you have "web" installed, see http://www.ueber.net/code/r/web. make sure you have $ROOT set, then run "mk" to compile and "mk install" to install the files. when building from within inferno, insert SYSHOST=Inferno and ROOT= in the mk invocations to override the values in the mkconfig. # example example usage: on a server: listen -A net!*!8888 httpsrv.dis on a client; mount -A {httpdial net!remoteserver!8888 net!remote!styx} /n/remote # licence & author this code is in the public domain, written by mechiel lukkien, reachable at mechiel@ueber.net or mechiel@xs4all.nl.
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