Is there any plan to support HTTP Proxy

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Thu Jun 7 16:47:05 CEST 2007


On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:33:48AM -0400, net at pine.mailshell.com wrote:

> Tinc is a great idea but often we sit behind corporate firewall which
> also often to only allow traffic to go through HTTP proxy. is there any
> plan of tinc to implement the proxy support, then it will truely be
> wonderful.  
> 
> like other through proxy service, one might setup a broker server to
> establish an initial connection through proxy and then hand over the
> communication to point-to-point, like services as foldershare, logmein
> etc. 
> 
> or the node behind proxy server initiate connection to node that is not
> behind proxy. 

Consider it on the TODO list. However, I don't have much time to work on
it. So it might take a while for such a feature to be implemented,
unless someone sends in a patch.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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